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YEARNING AFTER GOD

~ Jacob, on his way to meef Esau, well enough knew there was a God above him, but that was not e90ugh, and' , so he wrestled till daybrea,k for a reve~ation tha~shotild be more than knowledge. Tell me thy name, show me thy very self, is the cry of his needy heart.' '

Whether we have come to the hour of conscious need or not, it is the demand b'f everyone of us. Tbere are

,hours when the whol~ world, and all it contains, sbrivel to nothingness, and God alone fiUs the, mind; bours of human desotation, seasons of strange, mysterious exalta­tion, times of earthly despair, or of joy; the height and excess of any emotion bears us: away into regions where God himself dwells. But even if we bave taught, our- " selves to make' the impressions of. these hours constant, there is still an unsatisfied element in the knowledge. We long for more, for nearness, for sight of somethinl that stands for sight, for the Father at hand, and the home of the soul. I know that 'in many and many of ' 'God's ' children there is a longing for God that is not satisfied, because they are children and away from the Fatber~s house. And I know still better that the unrest o( this' weary" world is its unvoiced cry "after God.-Tht,tlort T.Mu.gtr.

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Edltorlal.-' Profit from Conference Entertainment.-Guard Your Home Against Baneful Literature.-Home­steads Furnished by the State.­How Would It Seem to the Other side?-A Notable Conference on Church and Country Life.-Note­worthy· Sayings by Convention Speakers.-Gifts for Our King: "Gold and Frankincense" ..... 737-740

Will No-License Cost a Man His Job? 740 White Gifts for the King .......... 741 The Loyal Lieutenant .............. 742 Sabbath Refo1'Dl •..••...........•.•.. 743 Amusements .• . ......•. ~ ..........•.. 743 MI •• lon •• -Gifts for Mlssions.-Evan­

gelistic Meetings at Milton Junc­tion, Wis.-Monthly Statement .•• 747

For the QUiet Hour ................. 748 The Triumphant Christ ............. 749

A Pleasant Surprise .....•......•..• '150' Woma.'. Work.-BUI Jones' Neigh-

bors (poetry).-An Indian Dinner Party .. . ..........•.•..........• ~ 'Z&1

Baked Beans . ii " •••••••••• ~ • • • • • • • • •• 7&1,. ," Letters to the Smiths . '. . . . .. . . . . • . .. 754 The Time of the AssoclatioDs ........ 7&& Young People'. Work.-Many Recruits

for the Seventh Day Baptist Tenth Leglon.-Tbe Call of the Country Ch urch to Young Ilen.-Tile Indlc­nation of Our . Master.~The Up G r a d e.-' MUton' J'unction News Notes ....•.•.•.•...••..•••••• 766-711"

Home N eW8 eo ................. eo •••• ~. ~ 7-81- :' Clllldrea'. P •• e.-The "T. )I. T's" •• 'II! 8abhatll Sellool......... . . . . . • . . . . . •• 'll.: M.~.lre. .. " .... ~ . . . . . . . • . • • . • • • . •• 78'1', DeatH .. . ......••.•...•••••••• ~ • • • •• . .,~.,

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. milton £olltat A coIIege of liberal trammg for young men and

women. All graduates receive the degree of Bachelor ~A~ . . \VeII-balanced required conses in Freshman and

Sophomore years. Many elective courses. ST'echl ad· vantages for the study of f:e English language an') Hterature, Germanic and Romance languages. Thoroug'l courses in all sciences.

The Academy of Milton College is an excellt'm - preoaratory school fot: the College 0t: fo~ the V nive!"si!y.

The School of MUSIC has courses 111 pIanoforte, \"}',1111. viola, violoncello, vocal music, voice culture, harmony, musical kindergarten, etc.

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Club boarding, $2.50 to. $300 per week; boarding in private families, $4.50 to $6.00 per week, including room rent and use of furni'ture.

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ust 22~27, 1916. . President-Prof. Samuel B. Bond; Salem, W. Va. Recording Secretary--Rev. Earl P. Saunders, Alfred,

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E.recttti,,-'e Committee-. Pr.of. Samuel B. Bond, Chair· man Salem W. Va.; Rev'. Earl P. Saunders, Rec. Sec.: Alfred::N.' Y.; Rev~·HenrY N. Jor4an, Cor. Sec., Milton J unction, Wis. ; R,ev.· 1\. )". C ~ond, SaleI?' W. Va. (for three years); Mr. M..Wa:rdner,DavIs. Salem. W. Va. (for three years); Dr. Sands C .. MaE· son, Utica, N. Y. (for two years); Dr. Geor~e. ' Crosley Milton, Wis. (for two years); Rev. Wdha~l L. Burdick. Alfred, N. Y .. (for one year); Mr. Ira .­Crandall, Westerly, R. I. (fot 'one year). . A~so c:x· !'residents and presidents of the Seventh Day BantI~t Missionary Society,' the Ameri'can SabbatJ:t Tract. SoCt· ety, and the Seventh' Day Baptist EdUcatIon SOCIety.

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Profit From Conference Last week we pu~lished Entertainment the report of the local

committee appointed by' the Milton Junction and Mil~on churches to arrange for the entertainment of the General . Conference.· Our readers must have noticed with satisfaction that, Cliter paying all expenses of building, of feeding the people, and for labor, there was left a handsome sumas net profit,' amounting to $135.85. .

The fa.ithful services of those who fur­. nished.5,780 meals averaging a little less than 20 cents apiece and giving a net profit of $1'35.85, must certainly be appreciated by the people of the denomination. It must also be a great satisfaction to the two Milton churches to be. able to give, as a re­sult of this profit, $40 each to the lVIission­ary and. Tract societies and $55.85 to Mil­ton College, in whose buildings the meet­ings of Conference were held.

Guard Your Home Against

Baneful· Literature

As the holidays ap­proach, the reading pub­lic is beset on every hand with solicitations

from publishing houses urging peo-ple to select, from club lists sent them, the papers and magazines that shall find . a welcome to their homes for the next twelve months. "Book N um­bers" of many religious papers and. maga­zjnes are publishing lists of books from which one may choose holiday presents for friends. '.".

w'e should remember that not all these books and periodicals are suitable for our homes or our public rea.ding-rooms, and care should be exercised as to what influ­ences.we bring to the young people. A book should be judged not only by what it says, but by what it suggests or insinuates -by the impression it leaves upon the mind. Some books may not appear to be harmful in the language used; no particular expres .. sion can be pointed out as being obs~ene. or vulgar; and yet the general trend of in­fluence, the suggestions, are so contempt-

ibly o~ color that a dec\d~dly bad. flavof left WIth the reader.,·. "

One writer states that magazines· ""'lllran

to exploiting sex are. multiplying ...... ..../ .,. plague of frogs, and are no less danger9P!;./\", because the nastiest things are said il1~,i.·:: lite language. The morbid, . sentimelifal r",:,:

works of fiction with which somemaga~:',':·' zines are being filled should meet with ~er most hearty disapproval of the . ..

. public. Shameful stories of -adultery"'" .......... . of familv· troubles that lead to alienation:s,.; between ·husbands and, wives ·must,bysug..;, .. gestion, be doing· untold harm wherev,er,: ,.read; and every lover of -purity, every one •. who· cherishes wholesome.home .in6uellce~.:, ...... . should refuse all· such reading... It would'_.T: be a good thing if -one hundred thousan~ .. >,,;

homes' during' this holiday time would te~ '. . .... fusepoint~blank to' ~cept· book~of, this;~'" character or renew· subscriptions for th~. 'It would be well, too, to tell the publishers. plainly \vhy such booJ<s are rejected .. Mag~ azines_ and papers "should be carefully. . .. chosen before inviting them to our homes" and making them welcome for a. y~ar .. among our young people. . "-- .

Homesteads Furnished· By a refereridumv-ote . By the State of four to one the State>

. of l\1:assachusetts has decided to go into the -home-makirigbtisi-ness for its citizens. Credit is given,anc!<, funds of the Commonwealth are to be ad .. · .. ' ~anced to those who want homes o£thetr-;,. ow~ and\vho are' unable to pay citytrents.;1:') and support growing families. If the,p1cm-:, is successful~ working people, instea.d<,:)f,. ""';" being cooped up in close city. tenem¢nts, ',.')" can by some form of public assistanceac~ , . . quire wholesome. suburban home$ witllgar~::;,. dens, and pfaygroltnds for their .childrett~ .

The amendment to the constitutionre~ds as follows:

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The general court shall have p()wer to auth..;! orize cities and toWns to take land and to hold, improve, subcllvide,build upon and sell the, same, for the purpose of relieving congestion of ." , .. ' ..• ' •. , .' ulation and providing homes, for ~L'"" .. ,~.;,,_ vided, however, that this ... amendment lIi:n.:a .... ·i'l'llor.< ... :

be deemed to authorizethe'sale of· such.: or buildings.atJess than the .cost.there91.Y;.'·:·~ ..,-;'C . .,,-

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This was adopted by the. people of Mas­sachusetts after a law passed by the Legis­lature, making similar provisions, had been pronounced unconstitutional. Home­stead legislation promises to furnish labor-

. ers earning $12 to $20 a week with suit­able homes, either their own or rented, on terms they are able to meet. On the theory that sanitary, well-lighted and ventilated homes for its citizens are essential to the best interests of- a State, Massachusetts proposes to provide them, and even to go

. further and promote agriculture that will bring its citizens back to the soil. It is expected that agricultural instruction will be given families residing on lands fur­nished under the provisions of this act.

.To me this movement seems full of promise. Some such practical help must be given by the state governments of America if the citizens of our country are to be' greatly improved as to -health and morals, and if we· are to escape the bane­ful results of congestion in the pestholes of ~reat cities.

and that, too, after having 'observed the Sabbath of the Bible! All efforts. to have these oppressive laws modified have been strenuously opposed by the National Re­form Association, and so they still stand on the statute books of Pennsylvania. Sab-' bath-keepers have suffered-their rights have been "invaded"-by oppressive re­ligious laws in seve-ral States of the Union. The Christia.n Statesman is doing all in its power to have "the first day of the week designated as the weekly rest day" in just that way. It is working all the time for more rigid laws, compelling people to "rest" on Sunday.

N ow we wonder how it would seem to the Christian Statesman if the tables were turned, and the advocates of Sunday laws were in the minority; and if keepers of the Bible Sabbath should .make strict Sabbath laws, compelling every one to rest on the seventh day of tpe week, or go to prison? Would no right of the Sunday-keeper be invaded?

A Notable Conference On Wednesday, De-How Would It Seem The Christian States- On Church 'and cember 8, the Federal To the Other Side? ,nan of November, in a Countlj Life Council's Commission

seven-column editorial, on' Church and Coun-discusses the "Declaration of Principles~' try Life begari, in Columbus, Ohio, as publish~d in the magazine called Liberty, one· of the most notable conferences issued by the Religious Liberty Association ever held . in America. It was the ,of Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. It first oqe assembled from all parts of

~ criticizes several of the ten principles the land in which the interests of the coun­, given, making its usual plea for Sunday try church and of country ·life were the laws, and, among other things, it says: "No main topics for consideration. right of the Seventh Day Adventists is in- The addresses from beginning to end

, vaded if the first day of the week is desig- emphasized the fact that rural churches are nated as the weekly rest day." all too numerous to be efficient; that their

This statement may appear fair on its membership is too small to give them· su£- ;;>

face, and if one did not know the full ficient support; and that, therefore, their meaning of the phrase, "designated as the pastors are poorly paid and the influence w~ekly rest day," there might seem noth- of the church too much divided to do the ing in it to fear. But when we remember good it should do. . that the Christian Statesman's ({designated" The first address of the convention was means nothing short of a strict Sunday by Gifford Pinchot, chairman of the Com­law, with penalties of fine and imprison- mission. He predicted that the convention ment for every one who conscientiously in Columbus would prove to be the begin-

. observes the Bible Sabbath and who tries ning of . a strong nation-wide interdenom .. to do legitimate work on the first day' of inational movement to prevent efforts to the week, the statement seems quite dif- maintain supe)ous sectarian churches in fetent. It takes on a look of oppression. rural districts; d he called upon residents

The Christian Statesman is published in of both country and city to unite in efforts a State noted for its blue laws, under which to stay the decadence of country churches. Sabbath-keepers of our generation have - Vigorous and sound country life. is es­suffered imprisonment and persecution for sential to a permanently sound' and vigor­laboring in. the fields on their own farms, ous life for our nation. The strength of

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any civilization is best measured by" the ~ound~ess of its rural life; and true spir­ItUal Ideals of the open country make the most effectual barrier against the laxity and lUXUry of social life that threaten our ruin. A?Iong other good things Mr. Pinchot saId: . .

I believe we are standing today on the thresh­old of a great. movement which will bring back to the church In the country and smaller towns the greater power. for good which it used to have. I do n~t contend that the church should take the functIOns of the ~range or the agri­cultural school, bu~ I do beheve that failure of the co?ntry churc~es through their-~ ministers to get Into productIve touch with the work and needs of the country people is one of the fun­damental reasons for the present weakness of the country church. . . . Weare not here to advocat~ t~e weakening dr strengthening of any denommatIon at the expense of another nO.r have we any theory to exploit or' any axe t~ &:nnd. We merely seek the truth about condi ~

- ~ons,. and remedies that are both wise and practicable. . .

Noteworthy Sayings BI'g k" f' I . . wor or rura By Convention Speakers churches was mapped

out, on the second day of ~e Co!umbus conference, by prominent ~gncultunsts and church leaders represent­Ing more than a score of denominations. If. all pla~s are carried out, rural churches .wIII .soon Identify themselves with activities lookln~ towar~ good roads, better farming, extenSIve agrI~ultural education, public health and sanitation, and temperance re­form .. They will also become social and ~ecreatIonal centers, unite more than ever ~n co~~unity beautifications, in celebrat­In~ reh~IouS a~d patriotic holidays, and in promoting ~ agncultural contests for their boys and gtrls,-. all these in addition to their regular religious work. .

To work out these ends the speakers u~ged co-operation o~ chur~hes not only wJtheach other but WIth Young- Men's and Y?ung Women's Christian Associations ';YI~h school authorities an4 such organiza~

RtIons as the Grange. Upon these matters ~v. R. S. Hutchinson, of Pittsburgh

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th The. <;hief end of the country church is not d e !"aIsmg of crops and flocks. It is the pro­

UCtiOD of men marked for their personal char­a~thr, and the development of a community civic ~g teousness. In the present weakened condi­IOn o! t~e country church as an institution co-

oPdration IS essential for the maintaining of ideals an standards of civic life. The rural church

should be the c~ter of. its community and nOt ;'y

o~ly co-operat~ w~th othez: c~untry churcbes~.but; .•... wIth all orgaruzatJons which aim at tb "belt':" ment of society. e. . -I>. er

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Miss J~ssie Field, of.' N e~ York·· known' ...•... throughout the land as the "Cont Lady' ',,; . showed that· ..' , ........ •

prosper~)Us. Y. W~ c .. A. organizations- in'a, . ~ral distnct woul4- provide means ()f making" guls an~ women more useful to the commoDitv . . . They .wtllbemor~ content with farm life ~if .. " there IS a communttywomen'sclub such as the Y. W. C. A.

Rev. Robert C. Herring, of Boston, said:

The co.untry . c~urch ;uffers from lack of the· .. · co-opera~Ive. splnt. I t is never easy to' get . the commuruty to ~ork together. . There are. many feuds and. lactions. The' sectarian spirit causes ~ohmebJanlllies to attend church outside the par­IS, ut a. real . get-toge~her movement among churches wIll remedy this condition.

The d!~~lty in maintaining' churches in: communitIes where most of the' farmers are only tenants was ably. discussed by sev-­eral sp~aker~. Men who do not own the . home~ In whIch they live, and who are 0IllY' transl~nt rent~rs, ~re .. ~ot likely to take ~uch Inte~est In budding up the church' or In. adva~clng community interests. -Upon>' thIS tOPI~' Rev. ~Ir.Ward, of Massa- .. chusetts, IS reported as saying:

Un~ess . this ten~t system is remedi~d th~' end IS t?ther. an Inferior, subservient peasant' c!ass as m England, ~bjects of charity like the CIty poor, .or a rebelltous' group ofagricitltural w~rkers wtthclas~ hatred growing among them. WIt.h·. the Industnal Workers of the World or-

. garuzIng the, seasone~ agricultUral workers, -andr fann-owners becommg absentee capitalists. it !ooks. as though the conflict that is developing In this country between tJtose who receive in;.' come merely ft:om .owne~ship of property and those who receIve It ~rom service rendered. .

. would gather strength In the rural districts. . '.

. The question of bad business meth."oos";·· In the churches was ably discussed, as·· was also a report by a committee which recom';" ?Iended ':a campaign' of ed~cation, invOlv~. Ing the Instruction\ of church treasurers ~nd trustees in stan~ard methods.offinanc..;; lng, ~udget systems, adequate methods of secu~ng contributions with regular and .' ~e~nlte payments,. simple systems of'P~r~~. Ish accounts;" etc. ~' .. ' .'-

W. e. shall be greatly mistaken iithis"con.J .. · venbon does not put new life into tbeiltt~' .. ' . porta~~ ,question of greater efficientyf9~'" the country chu~ch. . .

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Gifts for Our Kirig On another page will "Gold and Frankincense" be found an article

from Brother Allen B. West, chairman of the denominational Board of Finance, which every one should read and carefully consider. It is most timely, and, if its suggestions are acted upon by all the people, this Christmas time ought to bring joy to the members of our boards. Think of it! what an offering some ten thousand Christians could lay upon the altar for their King if they would only give as God has blessed them! If all were fully awake to our needs and in love with the Master's work, every dollar of debt would be paid before the year 1916 begins. How glad everybody would be if the people would oilly remember Christ the King of kings in this practical way. .. Is it not significant that the very first offer~ng named as having been given to Christ )Vas a gift of gold? Such gifts, ac-

. compaflied by the frankincense of our prayers, ,vould bring blessings from above and hasten the coming of that peace of which the angels sang on the birthnight of our King.

We have great hopes that the coming holiday season will reveal most cheering evidences of loyalty and good will on the part of our people toward their boards. Shall these hopes be realized? The answer to this question must come within two or three weeks, and we anxiously wait to see how the people will respond.

Will ·No-License Cost a Man His Job? According to the defenders of the sa­

loon one million ·workingmen would perma­nently be thrown onto the labor market following the introduction of national pro­hibition. This argument is based entirely upon the absurd proposition that if the liquor dealers fail. to get the money now spent for beer and whisky nobody else will get it. . . A good deal is being said about the

enormous amount of capital invested in the liquor industry, and yet, according to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, for every $1,000,000 invested in t4e aver­age industry, practically four times as much raw m~terial is required, four times as much wages are paid and four times as many workers are employed as is the case in the liquor industry.

Let us take five leading industries in the United States and compare them with the liquor business, with reference to the num­ber of wage earners employed. F or every $1,000,000 invested in each of these indus­tries the following number of wage earners are employed: Liquor, 77; iron and steel and their produtts, 284; paper and print­ing, 367; leath~ and its products, 469; textiles and thein finished products, 578; lumber a~d its ma~1!factures, 579. . .

What IS the ra4to of wages paId the workers to the amciunt· of capital invested in the liquor business, as compared with each of the industries noted? " Here are the figures: Liquor, 5.6 per cent; iron, 17.6 per cent; paper, 21.3 per cent; leather, 23.5 per cent; textiles, 23.8 per cent; lumber, 27.1 per cent. A quick glance at these fig­ures sho,vs how comparatively little the labor man gets out of the liquor busi­ness. If the $2,000,000,000 \vhich ,ve now spend for intoxicating liquor were spent for bread and clothing-the two staple ar­ticles in the life of the workingman-it would give emplo.yment to nearly eight times as many workers, who would collect­ively receive five and one half times as much wages as is now the case in the liquor business. "

Besides this, it would require $600,000,-000 worth of additional raw material to what the liquor industry now uses. It would not be necessary to spend all of the $2,000,000,000 for bread and clothing if the liquor industry were destroyed, but if the transfer of this money into the legiti­mate industries mentioned above would produce the results described, is it not fair to say that substantially the same general results would be achieved if the total sum were distributed among all of the industries that would receive the benefit of increased business were men to spend money for the nece~sities of life, as well ~s for i~s legit i­mat~ luxuries, instead of for liquor? If this were done the men who. make products for use in. the liquor business would find jobs in turning out these same materials for other industries.

The figures given by the liquor interests as to the number of men who would be affected by the abolition of the liquor traf­fic are greatly exaggerated. The census report f'or 1910 tells us that in all manu­facturing industries there were then em .. pl~yed 6,616,046 persons. The liquor in-

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dustry employed 62,920, or j itst about one per cent of the total, but of this number only about 15,000 were bre,vers and malt­sters, distillers and rectifiers. The re­mai.nder of the 62,920 were employed as engIneers, carpenters, machinists, team­sters, bottlers, etc., occupations which are not at all peculiar to the liquor business. There were more teamsters employed than there 'were brewers and maltsters distillers and rectifiers. ' " There are about 100,000 bartenders in the United States. What will become of ~~se when the salomi is abolished? \Vhat ~s It. that.l!lakes a successful bartender? It ~s hIS abIlIty as a salesman, and a man who IS a good bartender will make a good clerk or sal~sman in practically any other kind of bUSIness. Furthermore it requires many more people to sell $2,000,000,000 worth of bread and clothing, for example, than it ?o~S to sell liquor of the same value. And It IS !TI0re than likely that at least as many salaned employees, such ·as traveling sales­men, bookkeepers and stenographers, ,viII be employed. . .

But what about the" 15,060 or ~o brew­ers and maltsters, distillers and rectifiers? 'T~ey will, of necessity, be compelled to adjust. the!llselves to changed conditions~ but thI.S does not mean that they wilf either go adnft or cause a labor panic. The con­stantly changing situation in the industrial world in this country often compels men to transfer from one occupation -to another f!1any of them being required to learn en~ tlrely new trades.

As. a matter of fact, however, more workingmen lose their jobs because sa­loons are open than \\rouldbe the case were the ~al~ons to .be . closed. As somebody put ~t, " When lIquor puts a man out of a Job .It unfits him for another job. When no-hcens~ puts a bartender- out of a job it n1ake~ hIm a wealth-producing working­~an Instead of a wealth-destroying work­Ingman. I t is better that the bartender should lose his job and get a better one tha!l t~at dozens of his patrons should lose theIr Jobs and be unfitted for any job."­Charles Stelzle, in Christian Advocate.

Never fear to. suffer ; ,but oh! fear to sin. .If you must" cho.o~e between them, prefer the greatest suffenng to the smallest sin. -Gt(,thrie. Q.

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White Gifts. for the King· Six m~nths of the Conference y~arate!

now ~omlng to a close. One half of the . year· IS gone.· The apportio.nment for· the second quarter is now due. It behooves­u.s to look over' our accounts with theva­rIOUS boards to. see if we have fully met our share of the denominationill budgets. We should now forward in full the billanees due and as much more as we believe is our share. Some o.f the boards are handi­capped for lack of funds; they are handi­capped because some of us· are slow- tore­sPo.nd to th.e call fo.r funds and because s?me chur~hes, can not meet their appor­tIonments In full. The strong churches. should remember t~e inability of the weak, chl!rches and be. hberal and generous in theIr reSPo.nse to the calls f()r funds.

The Tract 5,ociety should . have $1,000 " . at once ~o. ret:!ay the· recent loan. The RE­CORDER IS entItled to prompt renewals and t? 500 mo.re new subscriptions. The Mis­sIonary Society needs .lu~ds to maintain Mr. Coon and Mr.- Nelson on the home ·field and for o.ther home mission work as w~~l as to maintain the work in Shanghai, I:leu-oo. Java andelsewh-ere. The Educa­tIon Society needs funds for-the Seminary; ~e Sab~ath Schoo.l Board for the exten­sIon of Its field work. . We should make ourselves familiar with the various needs o~ the· boards~ and having become familiar WIth them and remembering that their needs are our needs should support them as we have been prospered. . . . The Christma~ season is fast approach- " Ing. Soon·we shall hear thejoyoits Christ- .) !lIas hells and the merry 0tristmas· gr~_ ,. ." ... lngs. Young and old abke are looking forward with glad anticipation to the time when. families will re.unite and Christmas greettngs· he given. Christmas is the one ti!11e o~ the year in common when we all gIve gt fts, when we all remember our friends. When_could \\Te find a time more'· fitting to remember OUr great King and . his needs in Qur denominational fields at home and in foreign lands?" We recall that on.· that first Christmas morning the .shepherds . sought" out the Babe in the manger and ~o.rshiped ·him; the Wise Men ,vhohad seen his star in the East and laden them .. selves. wit!t . treasures were oil their way to ~orshlp ,hIm, the ~ing.of the Jews. '.When they had found hIm they fell down· at his.· -_ "

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feet and worshiped him; and when they had opened their treasures they presented him with gold, frankincense and myrrh. F611o~ing the example' of the Wise Men

. we give~' gifts ~to our friends; and follow­ing their example in a higher sense we can, as Christmas Day approaches, provide our~ selves with gold, frankincense and myrrh and seek our King to worship him. We can'go to the house of God on this· Christ­mas for this Christmas is the Sabbath, ~aring our. treasures, and there worship the King and give him our gifts. We can bring all our tit'hes into the storehouse. that there may be meat in God's house, and prove the Lord if he will not open the windows of heaven and pour us out a bless­ing .

Dear pastor, will you not arrange for white gifts for the King in connection with the coming Christmas Sabbath service? Spread the news in advance; give all the people the opportunity to share in this great bless-ing on Christmas Day; give all the people, young and old alike, the opportunity to worship this King of kings and to present him their white gifts, that the Kirig's work as directed by our boards may not be hin­dered and that· all the people may share so fully in the blessings that they shall not have room enough to receive them.

In behalf of the Board of Finance, - ALLEN B. WEST,

Secreta.ry.

-The Loyal Lieutenant REV. G. M. COTTRELL

(General .Secretary Lone Sabbath Keepers)

The first gun of the campaign has been fired.· South Dakota, as often, takes nrst honors. Her secretary is first to report receipt of the munitions (the new Direc­tories) for the year's campaign. He writes with the confidence of a German . general. If his spirit is a sample and equally shared by the thirty other secre­taries, our victory is already assured.·

Here is his letter: Iv{ Y DEAR COLONEL: .

Many thanks for that splendid Directory. lIt's just grand. Don't see where it could be improved;, even QY ·the best of critics. Shall see that all in my "parish" get one .. Expect to send them all a letter now, too. ~ See if we can get things to move. Fear

too little has been done since that good Conference. About all I know of is $2.60 to Missionary Society and $25 to Young People's Board. Some more $'s in sight though .

T,here . has been a Sabbath school or­ganized here in town-sort of a federa­tion-most Adventist children. It's held in connection with our Sabbath afternoon meeting.

We study the Adventist lessons. I got the job qf superintende~t. Must confess I tried to evade duty; but couldn't, and per­haps it was all right. We will hope so anyway. May have more information on this when we get right down to business. At present nearly all energy is taken out of the secretarv in the cornfield. We are having splendid weather for our late har ... vest. Hoping this . will find· you of good courage-assuring you t,hat I am with you,'­I am, as ever, . . Yours in the work,

Viborg, S. D.J Dec. 1, 1915.

TIMON s ..

We will take it for granted that . this letter is an index and harbinger of all that are to follow, whether written or only thought and felt, and. a prophecy of the grand work to be done this year among L. s. K's by our noble secretarial band. May we not be disappointed. The inspira­tion from the Conference, and _ the evan­gelistic activity in the <:~urches, should be .felt and reflected by the L. S. K's through­out the entire year. w

Dec. 4, 1915.

"Just look at .the wonderful color of the sea!" exclaimed a tourist on his first Med­iterranean cruise. "See how blue it is!"

"That's not strange," growled a traveler who had lately run the gamut of the N ea­politan pensions and was therefore dis ... illusioned. "No wonder it's blue. You'd be blue yourself· if you had to wash the shore of Italy !"-LippincottJ s.

"Did you see the pleased expression on Mrs. Blank's face when I told her she looked no older than her daughter ?" asked­Mrs. Brown, after the reception. "N 0," said Mrs. Jones, "I was looking at the e~­pres~ion on her daughter's face."

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SABBA·TH REFORM

The Sabbath Day

The Sa~bath is 'a bridge between two shores Whit~ . arch~d, strong . girded. Loud o~

eIther SIde, . Down to the border of the silver tide

Eager and fain, the noise of traffic rm;rs Then falls to silence. Not an echo fr~ts

The lof~ span, nor any garish light Nor sord}d shadovy flecks that quiet height

To staIn at all Its, snowy parapets.

Caught in ~ safe, high calm 'twixt strife and stnfe, -

A little while our hearts are holden here. Our souls, like tranquil pilgrims softly

shod, Halt, and !orget the weariness of life,

/And leanmg, find sweet heaven mirrored clear .

_ . In the still rivef- of the rest of God. -From tlte British Weekly.

Dr. Main's Sug~estion to the Federal Council . .

We give here the matter contained in a neatly prepared folder, written by Dr. Main and P!esented by him to the Executive Comm!tt~e ~nd Commissions of the Federal CouncIl, In Its meeting at Columbus Ohio December 8-~o, 191.15. It is entitl~d, "A Suggested Mlnut~ .Relating to the Value and Use of a Reh~lous and Rest Day.'~.

The Sabbath of Mosaism was intended to be a blessing to man and beast, not a burden. . .

. An ordained Christian ministry is a sym­bol of the universal priesthood of believ­ers. . S.o the ded~cation of times and places to rehgtous uses IS a symbol of the' essential

. sacrednes~ ?f all time and of every place. The privIlege and right of men -to as­

semble for public worship· should be sacredly guarded.

One day of rest each week should be se­cu~ed !or C?-1I hand and brain toilers, by legtsl!lbon, If necessary. .

It IS within the province of human gov­ernments to close liquor saloons and other places .of evil on the Sunday, and, which IS qUite as .important, on Saturday afternoon and·nlght·; and, indeed, through-?ut the whole week; but it is not the prov­Ince of human governments to prohibit"

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,vholesome re~reations ~nd the pursuit;,~\,i: honorable calhngs on any, day of . . ..•.•..•......•.... unless such recreations or empJ . ,.. ......,,' trespass ~p~n the e9ual rights of others.·

A man slife conslsteth not in the ·aD1l1nrl~ :mce of t?e things that he possesseth. In such ti~es as ours, it would .seenlas. i _ •.

a five-:-day Industrial week ought tobeade~ quate to the making of a: living; andthat .• both Saturd~y and Su~day !Dight be. giv~,.' to the. mak~ng of a hfe, In the way of< rest, recrei!-tlon, self-culture, social service: and worshIp.' . .. . .....t.

qne of th~ mighti~stof all mora~d SOCIal force~ I~ an enltghtene<lpublic senti­ment createu 15y educated consciences. and by leade!s an~ .teachers in-.the fields of. kn.owledge, ~ehglon, ethics, good citiien-ship, and SOCial betterment. ..

l We therefore urge upon' the attention of th~ .people O! all . lands the inestiniable, ~pI.rttual, ethical" and . social value of re-Itgtouslyregardi~g· one day in seven. .. '.

W. e appeal· to all employers to make it ... ; pOSSible for every hand and brain toiler to~'

. have at least one day in the week for true

. physic~l and spiritual rest and recreation .. We earnestly . ~ppeal to all Christians:'

who· count the Sunday as a gift of Provi:' .. dence for rest a~~orship; ~d toaD. ~ .. Hebrews and Chnstians who hold to the· .. Sabbath of the seventh day, to use these ..• days more and more for highest spiritual ... and social ends. .

Yours· fraternally, ARTHUR E .. MAI~~,

It! ember of the Commission 011·'

Alfred, N. Y . Sunday Observallce •.

Amusements REV. WARDNER C. TITSWORTH •.

The First Epistle to the Corinthians has .. !argely to .do wi~ questions of casuistrY; I. ~., qu~stiolis ~hich depend upon the .case. at Issue. for their: answers~ The killing.,.ol .. !l ~an IS a -question of casuistry; w.llether I!. IS murd~r or no~ depends up~nthat par: ... tIcular ~ase. The court has to. detenniile t:lotonly the fact. of the killing, bu~ the .. cir:"·, cumstances under which the killing"tOok·:: ..•.•.• place as well. If I take. another's lifem",:',:­defending. my own, or .by accident,:th~.O::;·; ·Parts of a sermon.· dell~er~d In ·the 'I'Irit AI,:". .

fred church. March 26 •. 1886 .. Text. "Andyebe,< disposed to go," 1 Cotlnthlans·l0.: 1'1. .... ..:."/'<

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conditions of the case are taken into con­sideration and I am not adjudged a mur­derer. But if I take another's life with malicious purpose, . I am condemned to death or imprisonment. This is sufficient to illustrate what is meant by questions of casuistry, or' questions which depend for their answers upon the case with which they are connected.

The question of casuistry in connection with our text has the following as its cir­cumstances :

Corinth was a heathen city in which were heathen idols and their temples of

. worship, and it was customary to take the sacrifices from the altars of the idols and sell them for food in the public market places. There were some of the disciples who thought it wrong to buy and eat this meat· and there were others who did not , .

/ see any hjim in it. So a dispute arose about it. Paul refers to it and says, es­sentially: "If you think it is wrong to eat such meat, do not eat it of, course, but I would buy what is publicly exposed for sale without asking any questions to dis­turb my conscience; for an idol is noth­ing, and meat that has lain upon the altar of an idol is food as much as ever, and has received no damage, nor has it ex-

. perienced any change. But there are cases where it would be best to let it alone for love's sake and for appearance's sake." That is, it would be best to let it alon.e when Christians would be hurt by one of their number eating it, or when the ap-. pearances would be likely to be against the cause of the church and of Christ; for there are Christians w'hose consciences will not allow them to· eat such meat, and it hurts them to see their brethren eat it. There are heathen who will say that a sacrifice means worship, and that he who eats of their sarcifice . shares in their wor­ship.- A Christian will freely give up. what others will misconstrue to the detnment and loss of the cause of the Master, whom he f~llows. N ow I believe we will look a long time before we find a nobler and loftier doctrine than that or a nobler and loftier manhood' than that which has these principles for its basis.

The case, in the decision of the apostle about which the text was written, appears to be as follows: It would seem'that Chris­tians were accustomed to receiving invita-

tions to banquets at the homes 'of such of their f.riends as were idolaters.

N ow we wish to make a careful study of the words of the apostle, because we re­gard the question of amusements, in the sense in which that word is usually used, as belonging to the same category as the case now spoken of. Notice Paul's words: "If one of them that believe not, give you an invitation, and you are inclined .to go, eat \\Thatever is set before you, asktng no questions about the food to disturb your conscience." That is, if a Christian should decide to go to a banquet given by an idol­ater and should so decide in all conscience, he ~ould at the same time also decide to eat whatsoever was offered him there to be eaten, and to do whatever was to be done there because he had good· reason to know abou't both at the time he decided tp go. A Christian had. no right to go to a place where he kne\v the meat offered for. food would be that which had been offered in sacrifice to idols, and then m2.' chis host and fellow-guests uncomfortable by

. his scruples about what was set before him on the table. If it was not right for a Christian to do what was'-' done there, it was not right for him to be there at all,­something which a great many people for­get. But the ap?stle throws ,~n a very s!g­nificant parenthettcal clause- and ye be In­clined to go"-,quietly admonishing the~, as Grotius says, that it would be better If they would not go.· .

We may be a little surprised at this de­cision of the great apostle. He boldly as­serts the principle of the liberty of the Christian conscience, and appeals to the Christian's loyalty to his brother, to the cause, to the Master, for his governing principle. But to comprehend. the f?l1 meaning of Paul's decision that a qtns­tian is free to follow his own conscience in such a matter as that of going to a feast in an idolater's home, we must remember that Corinth was notorious for its wicked­ness· that its religious feasts were marked by ~cenes' of lewdness and intemp~ran~e which it would not be right to descnbe In a Christian congregatiun. Doubtless, there­fore, its private banquets were not alto­gether decent and pure. But Paul hedges them about with no restraints, and really declares that their own consciences must decide the question, and then as much as says, "I shall be surprised if you determine

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togo in view of the case be'ing as it is"; stre~gth ,and ma~liness, or t~ ·weaknessand.;:,-:: or, to use his eXact words, "If anyone of . indulgence and lack of manhoOd.. " ..... ' ... ,: , them that believes not, invites you, and you 4. Therefore' what recreation we have' , " , be disposed to go." There are two prin- should. be hearty. Not a few peopie Ql1IYi' ,', ciples, then, plainly laid down in this verse: h~lf gIve themselves . to recreations,that"" ( a) Christian liberty, and (b) Christian are absolutely essential to their well-~irig."{'.:;; freedom; the distinction between which I They 10?kas.kance 'at pleasure, andonlI ......•. ,,:'. hope, will be made to appear before the dare laugh With half /the mouth ala. tili1e~ discourse is done. '. To be forever in'. a giggle is abomiriable~'.

I have chosen this text from which to but there is a tiWe to laugh and play, alld­speak .upon the question Amusements, be- then we ought (o'laugh and play. with ,aU .'. cause It seems true that with regard to the the heart. - .' , Christian's relation with them, Paul would .' 5. Life is a great"·deal more th~ Pass';; answer in the same way as he answers the lng away the time somehow.' Withmany question already discussed. That is, the people, l!ying is siII)plykilling time .. ' Itj~ apostle would assert the Christian's liberty a sad thtng when a man or a woman finds

, to all amusements \vhich are not wrong on the whole meaning of life in its recreation~ the plainest grounds of morality, and would and amusements.· . You will find, as a rule, .

. say that it is a m~tte.r. of the. conscience that such people are entirely destitute of of no one but the IndtvI~ual dIrectly con-' a high moral or religious purpose, and. that cerne~i. At th~ s~me tIme, fre~dom of they. are entirely governed by their" own consc~ence and l!fe IS better than ltberty of - caprices. They do just as they feel like conSCIence an? hfe: . . doing, without regard to' consequences ·.to

In the' dt.scusston of gIven technical themselves or others. . The result 'is fiip-,. a~us~ments, tt may. be best to. state some pancy,-absence of high and' noble . aim and .. pnncipies .upon whIch vIe I?ust proceed endeavor,-' selfishness, . p e·t u I a n c. e , and· ... :i and by which we must be gtl1ded. : vleakness. The world is no better for '.

r. In the first place, wemu.st. try to. be ~ ~heir lives: They make miserable homes, as nearly absolutely truthful a~ It IS pOSSIble unhappy fathers· and mothers andhus-- ....

. to be. W. e must not make distinct!ons that bands and wives, and are .a co~tinual'IQad •... do not eXist, n~r relate as facts thtngs that up?n the backs of those who are trying to are not undentable facts. We must be budd up the pure things of human life and governed as . little as possible by prejudice, society .. ' Obligations; of any. :kind,' .. are, or presumptIon, o~ rumor. We must tell nothing to them if th~y can' get out of the·'" the. truth Irrespecb~e of th~ ~onsequences way of them. Life's daily toil is a 'nu,isatice t? any of our chenshed opInIons and de- except as it furnishes the money.' with' SIres. '. . '. which to follow impulse. Restraints'~f

2. We .m~st dlSC~SS our sUbJ.ect With as home and society are irksome aridgallmg, lnuch .ChnstI.an chanty as posslb~e,. but .in. impatiently endured, or .angrily thr0wll>off,;.), a!l platn dea!tng as becometh ChnstIan dls- ,and at the. ,end they find themselves with' :;: clples .. It ~III hel~ us a little in the direction untrained w:ills, unbridled pas~ions· 'and ' of chanty :f we WIll ~ry to p~t ourselves ~n· ~esires, lawless and defiant tempers, wealc.i ... . each other s places; tf ~he older ones wtll ened and'paralyzed cons.ciences, their·youth, .. . re~all the days. of thetr youth, and the gone and .nomanly vigor or str~ngthac-. " 'yo~nger ones wtll re~ember that the ex- quired, only' poor.remnants Qf purity ~d penence ~nd. observatton of the older o~es . J?urpose le.ft, out ofwhi~h to build .up :~a#~,i ::

. make th~Ir Judgment maturer and calnler hness, whtle the pleasures ,of the- worlda~~': .•..•.• than t?e~r ?wn, and at least worthy of re- stale and old. Those who unr~strain~y,' spect If It IS near the truth. follow amusements "will find it true that~if . 3· Recrea~ions are as much a 'part of is but a step from a life of 'passio~.: O~t

hfe as work IS, and are necessary to most impuls~s should be. under the. controt "of , people. . Both th~ body and the mind ne~d c.onscience and jUdgment. '. . ..' -.' ...•.. relax~tton and reltef from the steady. strain . 6. There are just tWo restrictionswhidl of tod, and, therefore,. recreations ar~ the, Bib~ep~ts. on anything: It f()n>ids~(G).':: worthy of some at!enbon-a great deal that w~lch 1.S Immoral and wrong,Jlnd(b): '.' more than they get-I!! the way o.f .culture e~~ess .in. ,that w:h!ch i~ right.~v~i-y:tJjjnc> and control. Recreattons may minister to which IS nnmoralls condemned upon .p'J lal1J~::

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est groUnds of moral teaching. Christian­ity has not made a new moral !aw, nor has it forced some new- chapter Into the old one, or is it a code of restrictions upon the pleasures of life.

7. When the Christian disciple has de­cided upon the essen~ial righ.t or wrong of a given course of hfe, he IS not by any means done with the question. One may always do that which is intrinsically right

- and be no true disciple of Jesus after all, but live a :nost selfish life, destructive of the happir ~ss of others, and ruinous of the good name of the Christian religion. Even Jesus pleased not himself, and Paul said, "If meat make my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat while the world stand, lest I make my brother to stumble." Life is more than threesc.ore and ten years_long. 'It extends into the infinite age of God, and. we should remember this.

* * * * .. But the question is not what I would say, but what the apostle would say about these things concerning which we have been speaking. I think he would say about them just what he says about acceptin~ an invitation to a feast in the home of an Idol­ater. He would assert the liberty of the Christian to do them all, but he would add, "And ye be disposed to go:" or, to para­phrase again, "Y ou are of course . fre~ to

- go according to your own conSCientious judgment, but I would be freer than that, 1 would not be inclined that way." A very rare thing is a person given to amusements who has also a hIgh moral and religious purp9se, or who can be depe~ded upon. in

. the work which the church IS attempting to do in the .. world. The spirit of Jesus is not against amusements by any means, nor is the disciple of Jesus to be forever set in' scruples against them, b~t the wo~k of the kingdom of God languishes an.d IS neglected. when Christian disciples are much given to amusements beyon? the needs of recreation. I t is a rare thing to find a Christian much given to amusements who keeps up a private devotion, or re­tains a straightforward purpose in his re­ligious life. They furnish material for thought which is not high and noble, and, when' they absorb the mind, all higher and better things- must be crowded out, and ~ ·qoilsequence: ·is that the duties of every­dafi]jfe- become tame and distasteful, the

comtnon relations of life are not romantic and exciting enough; and a frivolous, dan .. gerous, and sometimes vicious, life is. the result. The more wholesome and senous the view we take of life, the more we are governed by judgment and reason and not impulse, and the less shall we seek for mere amusements. When Paul used the clause-"and ye be disposed to go"-, he well understood that many of the best and purest of the Corinthian Christians would not at all be disposed to. go. They would be in too great freedom for that, a freedom in which their inclination to go would be quite taken away. They would not be kept back by scruples or legal prohibition, but by the very Christian freedom which ennobled their lives. They would be at liberty to go, but they would be too free to go. The Christian, in so far as he is a Christian is not down on the level of one who ask; what he may do under the legal sanction of morality. That kind of motive does not have much influence with him; and when you come to him offering certain amusements, he does not fall back upon his conscience, asking whether he may have them, or try to tease· his reluctant con­science to let him have them; but more likely he says, "No, I don't want them; I

. am not disposed that way." And he doesn't do this because he is somewhat soured against the pleasures of life, but because they do not belong to. the plane of life on which he lives.

Christian people are set off from other people's amusements, not because they are not right for Christians, because what is right for anybody is right for a Christian,

. but because the love of Christ constrains . them, and they live above. these things, not claiming any superior excellence _·bec~use of it, nor with any greater show of piety because of it, but simply because they have grown . too free to want them any more. Shall we then as Christians be continually asking where the harm of this or that is? Is it not better in such things to be free? There is a better freedom than that,-to be so free that these things are not the wheat of life, but the chaff.

One evening little three-year-old. Mil­dred saw the new moon for the first time.

. "Oh mamma," she exclaimed, "see the an-gel'; finger nail in the sky!'" .

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MIS.SIONS

Gifts ·for Missions May the spirit of love so clarify our vis­

ion, purify our motives, exalt our ideals, that there shall seem but one gift that is 'worthy to lay at the feet of our Lord-

The fragrant alabaster 0' erfiowing with our love!

Thus shall we find the secret of, life._ For love is life, and they who do not love are not alive. But every soul that loves, lives in the heart of God and ,hears him speak. Only by the gift of our love can we restore unto God his share.

"'Restore to God his due in tithes and ti"me.' Ah! yes, 'to God his due in tithes and time!' And shall we measure God by tithes? or mark The line where obligation ends? . Our royal Lord gave much-Gave heaven, gave love, gave life, that we might

live; Gave all, that we might nothing lack.

- "Oh r Selfish heart! and blind! to be content With that which only seems. The love of gold

- Kills holier love. _ Gold's but the shining mask

Death wears, when, with a silken touch, he chills The fet:tile springs of life, congeals the warm, Aboundmg currents of love's gracious flow, And over the pathetic stillness throws His falsely glittering pall.

"Fear not, 0 true: strong heart! Tear off the mask, leap to the higher ground! Reach toward the dominant heights of God's ·Wide thought and will! . Wouldst hold Christ's hand? Then clasp thy

brother's close; Unloose the fettered angel in thy soul, White-winged beneficence, and speed her forth With manna for the hunger of the world, And feel the thrill of universal kin, 'The glorious throb that conquers time' and

wrong. And know that what is thine is His to spa,.e." ~Louise Kelley, in Missionary Tidings.

E vangelisticMeetings at Milton Junction, Wis.

DEAR EDITOR GARDINER:

I feel sure that some word from Milton Junction with reference to the evangelistic effort recently made in our village 'will be interesting even to those at a distance from this vicinity.

·Last summer our church voted to in'lir". Evangelist D. B. Coon and his singer ..... Paul H. Schmidt, to' come to this .'. ·'11· iii' ~'.:,;.; to hold revival meetings ~metime· .. . th~ .autumn.~ .l~ was alsO themajfti: ... ··' ,... opinion of toe members that the •.... ..' should be a com~unity effort. Accor~ng~y:' the local MethodISt church was invitett to unite with our church and all Christiah: peop!e, urged to _ co-operate -in the Go~1. meetings. _ _. . ' ....

As . ~e~tings pt:eparatory to the reg\ll~'..:',;: evangelIstic work, there were heldfour_,>:: cotta$e prayer meetings each .week besid~. . . two 'evangelistic services cOl)ducted. by the,,: two local pastors. . These services ivere very.'· helpful to th~ Christian people,as . they.···. prepared the h~rts and hands of the pe0.-ple for the greater effort. .

The evangelistic campaign began on: Oc­tober 21 and continued uninterruptedly un;. til November 2 I. . It was generally knOYill

that· the campaign would be hard and ta.;,. boriousbecause of the hostility of the god-less and the non-sympathetic attitude: of. ' .. : .... . many who wear the garments of respecta~--; .. : ... . bility and morality but w·ho- are never to be~: counted' on in the mighty struggle for"' . ' .. righteousnes~. .1'hen, too, there was·· an . inner ... circumstance which seriously threat- .. ', ehed to .4isrupt the meetings. B~t -by .. " God's overruling providence and the united efforts of' the thinking, praying. people the, disaster 'Was averted, though the spirit of . the meetings never rose to the height- that.' it promised when. the work began. . __ .' . ·Evangelist Coon .put his whole ,strength,

bodily and spiritually, into the messages he delivered .. His sermons were wisely chosen, ' . and were pI.ain, direct~ faithful presenta-.· tions of the. truths o1-the gosp~l . of God through Jesus Christ. c. He made his. hear.., ers think and caused some of thein toacf ';

Blessings, at present . not fully . ImQWD .. '

nor yet fully appreciated, have come to: our. . ...•. village and ~o individuals. We' hope-this .. ··· '.' effort is btlt a beginning'of it future mighty . work of God's spirit in this· community. Never' have the Methodists and' Seventh Day Baptists w~rked together s(). clo~iy, -so,, unitedly and with such a delightful~Chii$ ... !ian spirit manifested as during th~m~-ings. Pastor Webster Millar was _splfit .. did,whole-souled team-mate .. thrdughOUt.'." ." •..

We expect to hold. a ~ptismal Rt~viCe\.::i,,' at or near .Olristmas. Eight yoUng~I'.;.

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. -have offered themselves for baptism. Their thoughtful, earnest expression . ~~. faith in Christ is a cause for great reJ olclng to us all. . Others, some, of them adults~ are al­'most but not quite persuaded to grye ?ver to Christ the control and use of their hves.

We thank God' for favors we have al­ready. received from his kindness. We humbly ask of him that we may be pre­pared for greater divine blessings.. In the meantime we thank God and take courage.

Dec. 6, 1915. HENRY N. JORDAN.

Monthly Statement ,

. Nove_her 1, 191&'5, to Decemher 1, 191&'5 . .,

S. H. Davis, In account with .

THE SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST MISSIONARY . SOCIETY

, Dr. Balance on hand November 1, 1915 .... $ 227 02 Mr. and Mrs. Milford Crandall ........ 8 00 Mrs. D. C. Waldo, Foreign Missions .. 1 00 Mrs. J. D. Washburn ................. 1 75 Lone Sabbath Keeper, Wisconsin ..... 5 00 Churches:

Plainfield .. . ..................... . Shiloh .. . .........•................ First Verona .. . .................... _ Milton eo. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••

, 23 28 40 00 13 05 27 94 22 50 Chicago .. . ................ ~ ...... .

West- Hallock ...................... . Welton .. . ..... " ................ _ ... . First Brookfield .... ' .......... ~ .... .

9 00 6 15

28 44 Young People's Board, Dr. Palmborg's

s'alary •. ....................... . . . . . 25 00 Income from Permanent Funds ....... 500 00

$ 938 13

myself up to sleep without struggle, rest­ing my trust upon thee. It is thou who drawest the veil of night upon the tired eyes' of the day to renew its sight in a , fresher gladness of awakening."

"This is my prayer to thee, my lord­strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart.· Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in serv­

. ice. Give me the strength never to dis­own the poor or to bend my knees before the insolent might. Give me the strength .to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love." .

"When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest."-Rabindranath Tagore.

It may be of interest to RECORDER read­ers to learn 'something of the Bengal poet who was recently awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Rabindranath Tagore be­longs to an illustrious family which for ten or twelve generations has been noted for its great men-artists, poets and philos­ophers. His father, the Maha Rishi, de­voted a lifetime to phil~nthropy and to work for overthrowing idolatry in ~ndia. Rabindranath with his young wife took charge of the family estates on the banks of the Ganges: His quiet life here gave

Harrison Davis, acct. iftigene Davis .. $ 150 00 . time for meditation and for the study of c. c.' Van Horn, trav. expo ........... 7 50 nature. His early poe.ms reflect this influ-Montgomery Ward & Co., acct. J. W. d· h' t b f f I 1

Crofoot 'salary ............ . . . . . . . . . 9 62 ence, an contaIn t e mos eau I u ove Montgomery Ward & Co., acct. Eugene 50 45 songs in the Indian language. The!l came Pa"'?tv:I scb';'idi: ·,;,~~~u;'t· ;';':p~';,;';,; .: : : 37 50 a great sorrow; in a single year dea~ Treasurer's expenses ................. 20 00 claimed his wife, his daughter and hIS' .. ' $ 275 07 Bala.nce on hand December 1, 1915 .... 663 06

$ 938 13

Bills payable in Decemb~r, about ..... $ 500 00 Notes outstanding December 1, 1915 .. 3500 00

S. H. DAVIS,

E. & o. E. Treasurer.

For the Quiet Hour . MARY A. STILLMAN

"I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit . by thy side. The' works that I have in hand will finish afterwards. Now it is time to sit Quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication'of life in this silent and

youngest son. :. . Instead of alienating him from God this experience only drew him closer to the soul of the universe. He writes:

"My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But. infinite is thy mansion, my lord,and seek­ing her I have come to thy' door. I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy face ..

"I have come to the brink of· eternity from which nothing" can vanish-no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. ,

.,over-flowing· leisure." "In the night of weariness

"Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fulness."

From this time his poems, plays and es­let me give says' took on a religious character. I. '

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"Gitanjali, Song Offerings" are love songs of the soul to God. Many of these hymns are sung in the 'Indian churches to Mr.

'Tagore's own music, for he is a musician as well as a writer. They might refer either to human or divine love, and have much the style of the Psalms or the Song of Songs. These poems bring us face to face with the Creator, bridging over our h~lf-belief, and touching the very springs of our existence. They. reveal in sunshine and in darkness, in wind and in water, in all the manifestations of life, the living spirit of God. "The morning' light has. flooded my eyes, this is thy message to my heart." It is as if our own souls were singing and' appropriating the joy of ex­istence.

In "Sadhana" lectures on the realization of life which the poet delivered at .Harvard University and in England he, points out that one can not have joyous communion with the eternal spirit if the heart is full of selfishness, greed and pride. "The free spirit is one who can have measureless love for all cteatures, even as a mother has it for her only child."

.It is surprising that poems written- in a fgreign language translated into English prose can retain so . much delicacy and rhythm. .

"Thou art the sky and thou art the nest as well. ,

"Oh thou beautiful, there in the nest it is thy love that encloses the soul with col-ors and sounds and odors. _

"There comes the morning with the golden' basket in her right hand bearing the wreath of beauty, silently to crown the earth. And· there comes the evening' over the lonely meadows deserted by herds, through trackless.. paths, carrying cool draughts of peace in her golden pitcher from the western ocean of rest. .

"But there, where spreads the infinite sky for the soul to take her flight in, reigns the stainless white radiance. There is no day nOr night, nor form, nor color, and never, neyer a word."

To watch the corn grow, ~r the blossoms set; to. draw hard breath over the plow­share or spade;. to read, to think, fo love, to pray ,-these are the things that make men happy.-Ruskin.

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The Triumphant Christ ,REV. IRA LEE . COTI'RELL

Substance of Address on the last eve"i"g' of ... . . Conference at Milton, Wis.. ' ........ .

Of the thi'rty-four Conferences I 'ha~e" attended,' it seems to me this is the. best ' one of' all. I have been wondering how the mighty uplift, the entltusiasm, thec()Jl­secration, the love a#d' spiritual. power. manifested ,here can be conserved, to.1)e used in the years to come, to bring forth the results that we all wish to see. . .. , .

In the first place' we need a definite ob-: ject in view, in order. to attain our· best. A few . years . ago' J?resident F. E.Clark ,suggested that the U~ited Christian En;.,' '. deavor Society. should try to gain 1,000,000 new members and, 10,000 new societies. iri.-· the following tw~ years. lIt looked for a .. time as though they would not succeed iii . doing it, but, they did. This year'Pr~si-', dent Clark said: "Here is what I ask you to achieve, ~n the name' of the Master, and, trusting iri him ,for strength, during,. the next two years: 1,000,000 new Christians; 1,000,000 new members for, our societies; 1,000,000 new chul-ch members; 1,000,000 new dollars for missions; 1,000,000 'advo-' cates of the Peace Union," etc. "Then let us set our standard at 10,000 new societies before the summer of 1917 .. We cando it if we will. We must do it if we can."

The united temperance organizations·. have adopted as their goal, and resolved to win, by the blessings:cOf God,~N ational Prohibition in the United States by 1920. See the fright of. the enemy! A liquor authority has predicted National Prohibi- . eion two years. earlier--that is, in 1918. It has been proposed to· make P,.ohibition. . '. world-wide by 1930.' -. '

The Methodist Episcopal Denomination has ,made 250 ,000 new members their goal for the next year. . . ..

Now let Seventh Day Baptisfsget inline.,', Our Conference has',. passed .resolutions making our goal for the next three yean 500 ne~ members added annually' to our ' churches,. above all losses; 500 new mern-' bers added annually to our Sabbath, schools;: above all losses; and approved the plan of work outlined by the Young People'~, BO;lrct for the next Conference, year, .namelv: C';'ro.< secure 125 ,convertS; 200 new members.9~, Christian Endeavor soci~ties,:, 125 ",new:', .. church members from the Otristian ;En~-;'i

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deavor societies; 125 new dollars for mis- noble man or woman' surpasses that of a sions; 1,000 new members of the Peace mere insect of a day. And, too, he, our Union; 10 new societies; 500 new com- Leader, calls his followers to begin the life

and the work he came to live and do, in rades of the Quiet Hour; 50 new mem~ d . bers of the Tenth Legion; 75 Christian helping to carry on his grand an noble

work of saving men. May this work call Endeavor Experts; 50 Life Work Re- all of us to consecrate ourselves as never eroits." "We can do it if we will. We . t d ·t· f " Our people have ' before, and be assured, we shall at even-

md us .to

.1 ~\._ w: ctan. A d·ng to Elder' tide come with rejoicing, bringing the har-one 1 ' In u~as . ccor 1 , . , h ·th .. h

B ·1· , H· t f th General Conference vest of hfe s s eaves WI us, to enJoy, Wlt , al ey s ~s ory 0 e , the noble of earth eternal life. . '

page 3.18, In the year 1831-32 there was a That we rna r~alize all this and more, n~t . gain C?f 535 members when the whole let us "mobiliie, vitalize, and evangelize" me~bershtp was only 3,775·. From 1829 our forces, and. "Keep rank, keep rank, (With 3,047 members) to 1 832-three k J K·"" " - . rna e esus tng. years-there were annual gatns of 461, 267~ 535, or 1,263 net in three years, an average of 421 annually. This was a remarkable increase, and we have heard tell of the

. wonderful revivals of those times. It seems to be nearly double what we are at­tempting to do, but I, think we shall do well, very well, if we reach our goal in our time. With God's help may no failure come through our neglect. I &ee from the same source there is recorded a gain, in the year ending with 1843, of 717 mem­bers. ' It may be well for us to notice that, for eighteen years' after 1843, there were only six Conferences, or one in three years; also that ·in these eighteen years there was not so great an increase as in the one year previous to 1843.' In that year there were 717. In the eighteen years, wit~. triennial Conferences, there were 616 additions.

In the year ending in 1914, t~ere were reported 501 additions, but only 214 above all· losses. -'In the three years to come let us attempt something more than in the past. Let us "do our best" and put forth more consecrated work than ever before.

The world, the past year, has witnessed a . demonstration of what may be called consecration ona large scale. Germany and Austria have manifested what human beings may accomplish by being devoted to a given task that perhaps has no parallel in history, and they have astonished the world. If this can be done for the sake, as it- seems to the outside world, of ma­terial power and natiorial aggrandizement. . by an -attempt to crush the powers about ~em, what consecration may be manifested by those serving under a leader who has given his life for his followers, and prom­ised a country of more beauty and glory than earth has ever seen, and ass11red us of

. a life that surpasses this its the life of a , ~

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A Pleasant Surprise On Sabbath afternoon, November 27, at

the close of the Christian Endeavor meet­ing, Pastor Skaggs with his band of loyal Endeavorers crossed the street and very unceremoniouslv and uninvited entered the home of Mr. aitd Mrs. Delos Babcock. As Mrs. Babcock could not see their faces, each member was introduced to her, arid cordially welcomed. They 'were soon seated with Miss I va Davis at the or­gan. ' At once they proceeded to give a fine sacred concert, singing many of the old-time hymns which will never wear out, and closing with "In the sweet by-and-by. we shall meet."

. ~::,~'. Mrs. Babcock assured the Endeavorers .J::'ihat her fondest anticipation in life is the

glorious meeting in that beautiful beyond -fondly hoping to await their coming and to meet each one of them there.

Mr. and Mrs. Babcock expressed heart­felt thanks for the cheer and inspiration their coming had brought. When t~eir good~bys were said, the~ departed l~avlng pleasant memories of thetr sweet mUSlC and genial presence, which, like the fragrance of beautiful flowers, will linger with thei,r aged friends as they journey to th~ set­ting sun of life. Surely

There is nothing so kingly as .. kindness, And' nothing so royal as Christian love.

* You may think you see farthe'st in the

daytime, but you don't. At midnight. you see the -stars. You would be dreadfully short-sighted if you had to live always in daylight.-C o~tinent .

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WOMAN'S WORK My DEAR FRIENDS OF THE DEBORAH CLASS! ."

MRS. GEORGE E. CROSLEYi

KILTON, WIS. . ContribUting Ed tor

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Bill Jones' Neighbors

. The' sun had dropped like a grea~.~lfoj:d fire behind the, .\Ves~em hills, -leaving·th~' .... sky tintedin deep amber,.when we $top~; before the postoffice, a low, unpaint~cland' dilapidated building, and from the .sman .' battered desk I received a handful of let~ terse One bore' Mrs. Wardner's familIar

I got all kinds, 0' neighbors where I'm livin' by 'handwriting, and brought' a request, orper~ ..... the Crick~ haps I should sayan invitation, to have a.

Some Yankees and a Polock, and the Dutch is part in your anniversary." exercises,· ,and pretty thick, . . .. An' there's ,seventeen Norwegians that haul milk since I never refuse either Mrs. Wardner

along the road, or the Deborah class anything that I«:ePl An' the's Irish, some; an' others, I ain't figgered give,-I beganto wonder what lmight$aY

whar they growed. ' that would ,be of special interest to you . . An' some of 'em is diff'rent in their livin' ways Then the inspiration came; an OklahQJDa .

to mine- sU'nset is enough to inspire the dullestminct... -I reckon it's their raisin'-an' I never got a line All th d d " --On the half a dozen lingoes / heam around a "at ay I ha . been at·an Indian C4big ,

threshin' bee, . eat and I was -'sure you. would want to For I· was born a Yankee, an' ,that's good enough ' hear about it. Such an occasion is alway. -. for me. ' a most .u~que affair, and you ,would have,

opened your eyes and stared just as I did ,But somehow, when my wife was sick an' I was mighty blue, ,

Then Hilda-she's my neighbor's gal-come up and pulled us thru;

An' when I broke my laig last fall, an' huskin not begun, '

The Polo~k brought the Dutchmen and they cnbbed 'er number one. '

And when my neighbor's horse -got cut, an' laid - up plowin' time,

An Irishman he lent Bill one, an' never charged a dime;' /'

An' take 'em here and yander, as fur es I can see, .

The lot of'em together is just like you an' me .

I'm proud that I'm a Yankee, an' Pete's proud that he is Dutch, '

. But the lingo makes no differ, an' the creeds , don't matter much,

Fer we're goin' to pull together-Yank an' Swede an' Mick an' Finn-

Till we've sowed a crop of Brotherhood an' brought the harvest in. "

Fer that's the way we figger that our boys an' . gals 'll git .

Their chance a~ we:ve had our'n, an we'll help \, to fashIon It! . '

An' the' ain't no man can stop us, and the' ain't no one can say

That the neighbors down on Farmer's Crick ain't pullin' all one way.

.....;:.;P. S •. and H.

An Indian Dinner Party The following letter' was written for the

tenth anniversary of the founding of the Deborah class of La. Poite, Ind.··· IMrs. Martha Wardner is the teacher . of this class.

at first, could you have been there. ' o Sunday the word' was passed . a.rouncl '

that Tone~mah,' one Qf _the deacons,was'to " give a dinner at his home on Monday: All were invited, and no regrets w~ handed in. The, day dawned, clear and . sunny, with a brisk wind. ,We started' early-think of going to a dinner party irp- ' •. -mediately after breakfast-but even' then " the Indians were ahead 0 us; for as we .', drov~ into the yard, it was' led with hackS, . , '. buggtes, wagons, and veQj les of all de-: scriptions. Three tents h d' been put -'up . together, making a room as g as a house. " In the kit£hen of -their home Tone-mah's wife, daugflter and some intimate _ friends -.,. were setting-tables and cooking dinner. -AIr -the guests were assembled in the tent. As many times as I have seen the Indians on­festive occasions I never cease to marveiat their way of entertaining.: It is so dif~' ferent from that of the white people. ", If there were those present who were not Christians, we, might consider it courtesy to keep our religion hidden; not sQ, the In~" dians. Tone-mah had invited many ."11D:­converted friends. As I took my ptaceat . one end of the tent, Lucius, the interpreter, ' whispered: "Give a good Bible lesson to the unconverted." Knowing what to el[­pect I had prepared a talk from Jesus' first miracle at Cana~tttming water into wille;' and after telling the story of the "big'eae' .. where Jesus was "a guest;. I spoke of ,Ilia transforming pow~r, and then gavesolll~ .

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plain, strong talks, as the Indians call it, to the unsaved. Te~timonies followed. Many of them were urgent appeals for the un­converted to come into the "Jesus Road." At twelve o'clock Tone-mah's wife an­nounced dinner. 'An old Indian arose and 'said, "Now we who are Christians must stay behind and let all of' our unconverted friends ,have seats at the table first;· then we can go in "-a little, I thought, of the spirit that must have been, in our Master's heart when he said something like this: "When ye go to a· feast, choose not the chief seats, etc." ,. '.

I wish you could have peeped in at the doors and seen the four long tables set­one reaching the entire l~ngth of the house. All were decorated in fancy colors,and were filled with good things. There were the cakes that the young women proudly told me they had made, the beef that had been dried in the sun, the fried chicken, the

- fruits and candies, besides many plainer dishes. ' The women and children ate on

· the floor; the men and the missionaries "\vere seated at the tables. Lucius gave thanks and then'· the food began to disap­pear with amazing rapidity. When the natural capacity for carrying food had been ·exhausted, . sacks of all sizes were brought forth and what remained was taken away' by artificial means.- It would have' been <:onsidered extremely impolite to leave on

· -the tables any of the good things prepared by' the hostess. - After dinner the guests scattered every­

where in the bright sunshine. 'The groups, of gaily dressed Indians sitting here and there cha tting happily together made a most picturesque sight. After the dishes had been washed, the house put in order, and dige~ti9.n aided by much fun <:lnd laugh­ter, a few 01 the Indian men gathered again in the long tent arid began to sing. The Indians came from . all directions-the mothers with papooses on their backs, the fathers leading little children, and soon the meeting place ,vas again filled with Indians great and small. . There was another Bible lesson, many more testimonies and prayers, .

, and the afternoon was well spent before the service closed. There were many ex­pressions of gratitude to our host and host.;.

· ess, tben the horses were hitched up and the long' procession drove away turning in every' direction to their homes. I thad truly been a' "big eat" for both body and

soul, and who can tell what seed had been sown that might in some fu~ure· day bring , forth fruit.' . ,

We look upon the Indian with pity-he is so far beneath us. And it is true that he has much yet to learn. But I think that these simple children of nature, crude and unlearned as they are, can at times teach us a lesson. And T wondered that day, as I drove home through the soft, hazy autumn light, if we had as truly learned to do all things "as unto the Lord" as had our simple-hearted Indian brothers and sis­ters."

* * * * May God's choicest blessing rest upon

the Deborah class and the dear teacher as you enter another year of service for him.

Lovingly yours, GERTRUDE MITHOFF.

Saddle Mountain, Okla., OCf:I4, 1915.

. Baked Beans REV. JESSE E. HUTCHINS

,Baked beans and ice cream, Isn't that a dainty dish to set before a king?

What king, and what about it? The King of Glory, the Lord Jesus, who is served with a plate of beans 'and a dish of . Ice cream.

The church comes to the end of the year with a large deficit. At the business meeting a committee is appointed to so­licit the members and attempt to ,raise the money. After a sweating time of it the committee confer together and find that they are still quite a sum behind. '.

They come to the next church meeting and the' chairman of the committee begins to tell of all the trials and tribulations of Brother So,..and-So, ho~ he has had a little misfortune this year, and his bumper crop did not turn out so well as he had expected, and he has not received as high a price as he "had hoped to receive, so that it is im­possible for him to pay all that he would like to. Then there is that other So-and­So,-hehas lost one of hts best horses (one that ought to have been dead and con­verted into fertilizer years. ago) and he has had to spend the money he was saving for the church to help buy a new horse, so ,that it is impossible for him to give any­thing at present. Then that other brother

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from whom they expected so much had an accident to his automobile while out on a pleasure ,trip "Sabbath Day and' it : took aU the ready cash he could scrape together to put the car in running order again. There was also a good sister who had coqnted on raising chickens to help the church but. the eggs didn't hatch good and the rats got in among the few that were left; so she hasn't much to give. And' so he goes through the list. Consequently there is still quite a deficit.

The people thus collected talk about stocks and bonds, farms and crops, cattle and hogs, s!yles and fashions. Finally some one thInks of the Ladies' Aid as a mean~ fo~ raising the debt, a!1d promptly a motion IS made to ask the AId Society to help the church out of the difficulty.

The ladies call a meeting and vote to have a baked-bean supper. They get to work. Each woman spends from fifty . cents to two dollars to get some baked beans and accessories together, which they serve for twenty-five cents a plate. The

· whole general public is appealed to : to heJp pay sombody else's debt and at last the deficit is met. Thanks to the Ladies' Aid which has so generously "given" to the public a fifty-cent supper for twenty-five ~ents, and has received enough to pay the debt. "But it is the Lord's work and we , '

had -a go09 time. 'Blessed be the name of the Lord.' "

N ext Sabbath the' pastor announces that he is to be away the following Sabbath' and that a visiting brother will occupy the pulpit. It happened to fall to proud Brother Committeeman to introduce the yisiting brother. " While he is sitting there In the pulpit he is much chagrined to notice ·that the carpet is getting very badly worn and thinks that the preacher can not help

· but notice' it. The last note of the bell dies away' and the preacher is' intr9duced, but the co~itteeman ca.n not get his mind on

,the splendid message which is being de­livered. On. the next Sunday the regular b~siness meeting of the church is held ·and the need of a new carpet is brought before th~ church. A committee is again ap-

· pOInted, and of course,: since this man was the one who first noticed the worn carpet an~ had talked so earnestly for a new one, he IS put on as chairman,-atso because he was. so successful 'in raising the money for the debt., .

. Again a thor~ugh canvass is" made with hke. re~ults-ther~ . is a little, 1~c1cing~ . Ag~In .the matter I~ gone <?ver labono~sly, " •..•. revIewing. the straItened cIrcumstances of ," each individual merilQer who has spent his ' .•.... money for ev~rything from a new. trotting h~rse to a. paIr of lace curtains. 'A great .. dtlemma confronts the church. A happy thought,-some one thinks of the Ladies' Aid, ~ whi~h is . again asked to help out. A . ' . m~ettng IS called. at o~nd the Ladies'. AId votes to have some more baked beans and ice. c;eam. The process of [baking" · and fre~zlng and. !urnishing is all. gone', ...•.. : over. agaIn, and ,a big supper is held, and " ~ve~body gets tired. out, and the ne~daY' IS-~rtday, and the c~tldre!lliide ~11 day Ipng ,.' wh!le th~ 'work IS . beIng done-except whtle theIr mothers are out leaning Qn the back-yard fence going over the whole per­formance again. At last the quiet. Salr'. bath eve draws on with its restful, blissful' moments, and the old church bell calls them ~gain to th~ blessed hour of prayer. Prayer meettng?W ell, I guess ~ot !

We have all been too ~usy doing the Lord's _ ~ork. . We shall have a new carpet. .. ~lessed be the name of the Lord.'" . . It is not: long before it is noticed that ..

, the old cushions are about gone. Oh . no I'm. not g?ing to 1{? o~er that same .~to..y agaIn, whIch by thIS time has become ,so ~ familiar to every church communi tv 'in the country. It. is a .good thing for"' church people to come together' occasionally for a sqcial/evening and supper, but does it not seem unnecessary iQ the work of Christ's church that the only way that it. is possible. to get some of the most able' to give is for,' s?~e one else to give twice 'as much in.pr<r· VISIOP and then pay the same as others, . and have the pleasure of seeing someeagte.;. squeezer come to the table acting as though~ , he had been fasting' for a week, and then: !nake uo/.'for l?st ti~e? After he has fin­Ished a bountIful supper he turns' to th~ president of the Ladies' Aid and remarks,: . "I really don't see how you can put upsuclt

. a supper for a· quarter." She stnilesand thanks him for the compliment~ but thinks to herself, "I really don't see how youcati put down so much· for a quarter." ..

Moral: How does your church' raise its money?

. "Contentment consists not· in wealth, but in 'few wants."

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Letters to the Smiths - To George Smith.

My DEAR NEPHEW: Let me change your -q~estion from, "What is a Christian?" to "Who'is a Christian?" and I will reply that he is' a near neighbor of mine, one whom I have known well for years-a Scotchman from the north of Ireland, yet a genuine American. About the first thing he did after coming to this country was to' enter the Union army, and thus become a sturdy boy soldier for the freedom of man and 'the integrity of our government. Ever since those days he has continued to be, a ,good ,soldi~r of our republic, contending with voice, example and ballot for civic righteousness. Tohough a lover of peace, I suspect that he would go to war again, if need be, against injustice and oppression. He is as Christlike as any man, I know, and Christ once wielded a whip in the very temple of God to express his righteous in­dignation against greedy grafters.

This ~eighbor of mine is human-in­tensely human-so I can not say that he is, perfect. He would declare himself far short of his own ideal of Christian man­:hoo~, yet to us Who know him in his every­day life he seems' Christlike. An old schoolmaster of his has told me that John was a genuine boy, full of fun and some­times unduly mischievous.

And now, my dear nephew, ~ I am won .. dering if the carpenter's Son of Galilee was not himself a genuine, wholesome boy -s.o much so as to enjoy fun and sport, even to relish a joke now and then. The Bible story of him is necessarily short and­lacking in many little details of his boyhood that I would like to know about. I like t.o think of him as a real boy, yet growing in kn.owledge and truth and wisdom until, by ,and by, the great purpose of his life took possession of his strong nature and he became able to triumph over the temp:­tation in the wilderness. I think that sometime, somewhere, my neighbor may have had a similar struggle with the tempter, and that he too came out of the wildern~ss a conqueror-able to enter with courage the age-long 'conflict of right against might. As it is with all of us he had first to subdue himself-to bring his strong nature under subj ection to higher ideals. Thus was his tendency toward fun and mischief transformed into a genial, kindly

humor. He has now at hand a rich store­house of anecdotes and reminiscences­many -of them humorous-that make him the life of any company of which he is a part; yet never does a story of his suggest an evil thought. Like the parables of the great Teacher they contain ,half-hidden moral truth.

This neighbor of mine is every inch of him a man-stalwart of body, large of heart, sturdy of purpose, and strong of conviction, yet gentle and modest of de-

- mea~or. Through a long life of earnest service for humanity he seems more than most men to have brought his faculties and emotions under \ subj ection to a higher power, ~ and to have acquired the strength of one who has overcome evil with good.

This rieighbor of mine is in business­is a real estate dealer. 'I feel that I could trust him implicitly as such. I have heard others say the same thing. He seems to take the golden rule into his business. He is not weaIthy-j ust has a good home and earns enough for an honest, comfortable living for himself and family. He has earned, too, what some men never get-the genuine respect and confidence of all men and the love of us who know him best. Moreover, his house is always kept in or­der for the message to come up higher. _ , T~is neighbor of mine seems possessed in an unusual degree of the spirit of Paul's charity chapter in his letter to the Corin­thians. Though he has for nearly half a century been a leading and loyal mem­ber of a Pr(Jtestant church, I do not believe

, that any devout Catholic has a better friend than he. I have heard him say that he would by no means undertake to under­mine the faith of any on~specially a you~gperson-and to draw him away from the church of his choice. No one respects me as a Seventh Day Baptist more than he. ' Though he hates sin he is apt to have a feeling of ,sympathy for the weak. erring mortal who has wandered- away from the path of rectitude. He is a valiant temper­ance worker, yet says that he can realize why the man who depends for the support of himself and family upon the making and selling of intoxicants can not readily see how bad a business he is engaged in. I have heard him say that as 'a Christian he must love some inen he does not like. ~

This neighbor of mine is a may of prayer, and I have heard him speak from,

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th~ pulpit. Because .of his daily life 'his prayers and his sermons are wonderfully impressive. If some person in our com­munity should ask me what a Christian is,

. I would attempt no abstract definition. I would ask him to observe the life and study the character of this neighbor of mine---a real, concrete, flesh-and-blood em­bodiment of what I understand Christian­ity to be.

I suspect, George, that you and I, if we have the faith, the charity, the moral purpose, and the consecrated will of this

, neighbor of mine, we may be as Christlike as he seems to be. -

UNCLE OLIVER.

The Time of the Associations Number 2

REV. A. J. C. BOND

In a former communication I gave some of the reasons why the Sou"theastern Asso­eiation voted -- to' continue to hold its an­nual sessions in the autumn. These rea-

. sons may be considered as those peculiar to our local circumstances, perhaps. I feel that I would not be fair to myself, however, if I did not mention another rea­son w·hich was very strong with me in con­sidering the matter; a reason which would apply equally to all the associations, if it will s~and the test of the good judgment of the WIser heads in the denomination.

, There are some among us, of course, who look upon Conference as' a closing cli­max to the year's work in the denomina­tion.' In a sense this is true, and the Con­ference' should bring to us, through the annual reports of the societies, and through messages from' the field, something of the' results of the year's work. A little hot air, and other frills and thrills, such as were indulged in on "Stainless Flag Night" of our late Conference, may be allowable, per­haps serviceable. But there is another and ,more important service that Conference can do us. That is, to make out and' pre­sent to the denomination a program of activities for the new church year, upon which the churches enter in the fall. - The ,work of the Board of Finance is in line, and some of us are very grateful for the thorough manner in which they did their work this year. The ,launching of the "Forward Movement" ~s a case in point ..

..... . -

The -logical as w~ll as, the most practical" way of, getting tbes,e interests before the' people, is through the associations held-soon after Conference. The asso~iabon' at Berea this year demonstrated the value of the -present .order. '

The conception of the ab~.olute, eternal,' unmovable sovereignty of the Infinite and nothing less than ,this, is the ultimat~ and fundamental of a real religious faith. The man is not worth his weight in i dust who' does not stand in awe .of God. In all his­tory and biography, in every age and clime and nation, this has been the spirit that has hated iniquity,broken tyranny, induced righteousness, "',rought liberty,and made ' men worth making~ And there, never was ' an iniquity hated nor a tyranny broken,nor a righteousness induced;' nor a liberty' w~ought nor a -man worth making made WIthout it. A good-for-nothing God -' in theology means good-for-nothing pr.ophets in the pulpit and good-for-n9thing men in the pe'ws and on the street. Does this im­pair the heavenly Fatherhood ? Willa true father encourage his children in their sin by countenancing it? Is God a seller of indulgences? The Fatherhood of God ,caBs for the forbidding of sin, and if be ignores it he is no true Father. ,God is so good and loving that he is, supremely' ' concerned for the moral \velfare of his children. He wants them to be righteous. He has placed the barrier of retribution between them and evil that they might tum from evil. Judgment, retribution, pu~ish­ment, belong, among the evidences' .of l.ove. -R~v. Charles S. Macfarland.; in ~iChris- " tian Service and the Moder~ World."

Rejoice if in the Book ot -Life thy name is _ ' spelled; '-. , I fin thy thought a dream is held Of rapture on ahead when thou art free Across the vistas of immensity-Thy name, thy very own, inscribed midst words

- of light _ Beyond the vale of -death and night! Rejoice; but as thou dreamest apart, "_ ,Be sure the Christ-name bums across thy" ,

heart. -Geo,.gj Krigk;'·' ,

'Tis the grandest theme thro' the" ages rung; , 'T~s the grandest theme for' mortal, tongge,;" 'TIS the grandest theme that the world e'er sUii---

, Our God is able to deliver thee., ,,_ " -W. A. diitlei .

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YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK REV ROYAL R.- THORNGATE. VERONA, N. Y.

. - Contributing Editor

Many Recruits for the Se-Yenth -Day Baptist Tenth Legion

Over 200 already enrolled! - Although the Tenth Legion department of the Young" People's Board has only been organized since September, already 217 members have been definitely enrolled, most of whom were gained at Conference.

, There -are, without question, hundreds of others in the denomination, but these have been· recorded definitely with the Young People's Board .. Corresponding secretaries, please send in the names of all of your Tenth Legion :members to C.arroll B. West, Milton Junction, Wis., and state ~hether or not they are enrolled in the Untted. So­ciety at Boston, and as such,~aye received their enrolment cards. IndiViduals who wish to be enrolled in this -progressive movement and to declare their intention of giving at 'least one tenth of their income to Christ's work, please send in your names . also. Be sure to read over carefully the Tenth Legion Efficiency leaflet or cate­chism which will be printed in these col­umns.' The Riverside society recently re­ported eight Tenth Legion me~bers. They are coming in fast. The follOWIng are only a few_ of the large list, parts of which will be published occasionally.

Angeline Abbey, Chicago, 111 . Blanche E. Babcock, New Auburn, Wis. Ella Babcock, Grand ~Iarsh, Wis. Fred I. Babcock, Kaukauna, Wis. Grace I. Babcock,. ~1iItOJ1, _ Wis~ James O. Babcock, Welton, la. John T. Babcock, New Auburn, "o/is. Lillie llabcock, Grand Marsh, WIS. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Babcock, Milton, Wis. O. W. Babcock, Delmar, Ia. D.Fern Barber, North Loup, Neb. Herbert Barnes, Milton, Wis. Adelaide Bartholf, Milton, - Wis. Elston L. Belknap, Oberlin, Ohio. Mizpah E. Bennett, Milton, Wis. M. E. Big-elow, Battle Creek, Mich. Susie D. Bivins, Bridgeton, N. ]. Tehje Blume, Milton, Wis. Rev. A. ]. C. Bond, Salem, W. Va. Stella- M. -Boss, William's Bay, Wis. Isabella Brown, Milton, Wis. Alice -Burdick, Milton, Wis. Allison L Burdick, Milton, Wis.

C. A. Burdick, Westerly, R. I. Oifford L. Burdick, Milton, Wis. Mrs. Ella M. Burdick, 'Westerly, R. I. George W. Burdick, Milton, Wis. Grace Burdick, Dunellen, N. J. Harold Burdick, Milton, Wis. Marjorie Burdick, Milton, Wis. Mrs. M. W. Burdick, Milton, Wis. Russell Burdick, Milton, Wis. Mrs. W. D. Burdick, Milton, Wis. W. D. Burdick, Jr., Milton, Wis. Vina Burdick, Milton, Wis. Ethel Butterfield, Chicago, III. Ethel Carver, Milton, Wis. Beulah Clarke, La Grange, Ill."

The Call of the Country Church to Young Men .

GLENN L. - FORD

Paper read in Y OIlng People's Hour, Southeast­ern Association

The call to any vocation is the call of service. The greatness of the call· can be measured only by the needs of the field from which the call comes. It seems to me -that there is no call to young men from any field unless there is an appreciation of the opportunities for service. Consenting to take this part on the -Young People's program has brought me face to face with the call from the Country Church," and

. what I have ,vritten is the result of my re­flections on the - needs of the Christian Country Church. _ ...

I could give you statistical evidences of the decline in religious ardor in the Coun­try Church if empty pews and vacant pul-

"pits count for anything. Differ~nt denom­inations have authorized committees, and given money freely, for the purpose of col­lecting statistics - showing the number of pastorless churches and abandoned houses of worship-taking the religious tempe~a­ture as it were-and in almost every In­stance the results have shown a decline in outward expressions of religion. Th~s does not prove that people are l~ss relt-"_ gious, but it does prove tha~ t~ere IS not a vital ,connection between theIr Interests and the interests of the church which is in theit midst. Perhaps I had better say that the people have acquired interests, ~hich ~re vital to them but do not see theIr relatIOn to the church. Not that the church is less vital in its possibilities but it has through inactivity'lost its hold upon !he peopl;. We

. can not have a live church .In the mIdst ot

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. an indifferent people. . The church and the thousand years of experience and struggle people are one. . . over Peter, so' why sho~ld we not be _ more

I want to make thiS plainer. Let every loyal and steadfast? one ask himself or herself, What does the Let us examine the foundation of the church really mean to me? As yo1f!tear country life. . Do all its phases favor true

-'the word, I imagine your thoughts g~k Christian living? Surely man is not born .. to some particular church nestled. down in with tendencies an~onistic to Christian. one of these valleys; it may be the church influences, at least not nonnally so. . Then . of your childhood around which cluster we must· look to his environment for in •. many beautiful memories, and I would ftuences which lead him astray. Is.there. there were more who had such memories. anything in his natural.· environment which But stop, we must think in larger terms. hinders the development of the Christian The church is more than wood or stone or spirit? .There can not be. On the con. pleasant memories.. The church is com- trary, I think there is everything to awaken posed of human souls; people are thtf\parts and develop it. The natural is the "door- _ of the whole which is the church. The way to the spiritual. We who live in the . church building is but a symbol that strife country are especially blessed with our

. and envy are at an end, that harmony and natural environment, suggesting as it does unity prevail, that the Christian spirit has· faith, hope, patience, endurance, and. un"' . its abiding-place in the valley. Yet we selfishness. Yet with this advantal!'e our

.. forget that it is through us that the church Christian living is cold and indifferent expresses itself. Why is it? Are, Our eyes blinded' to the

. Let us add another C to the Country beauties abou't us because the struggle of Church · the Christian Country Church, the maintaining a respectable existence. is too three d s. What a world of meaning that strenuous? ,. Is there no time for the third C carries with it, suggesting to us culture of the spirit? Or is ·the struggle the spirit of the Christ. This· spirit is tooeasy? Sometimes I think this great-. beautifully expressed in these borrowed nesS of soul, this spirituatculture, is rocked words: "His great intellectual powerco~-· to sleep in the· cradle of self-sufficiericv. bined with an attractive modesty; hiS The independence of the fanner is exalted, tenderness with courage; his meekness .. but it is a dangerous possession. He does with boldness; ·his self-sacrifice with a not know the bonds of .unio

n which come

great manly spirit; his enthusiasm with with a vital common interest with his fel­patience; hishumi!ity :wit~ self-respect; . low-men. Neither does he know the strife, these elements so mIxed m hIm, that nature envy, and hatred whi~lt afe the outgrowth could rise up and say, He was a man"; of close competition. The ties which bind that men of all ages can Point to him and him to his fellows can not be based on any_ . say, Behold the Prince of men. thing selfi.h ~~ utilitarian. These ties must . We as a church stand for these elements be based on the principles back of the life which characterize the life of the Mas- of the Master. It must be the result of a .

. ter. As Christians they are a part of us, condition with and prompted by only the . but We measure up so woefully short. .As purest motives.. .

individuals, on the last provocation, we, The fanner is hospitable to strangers and . like Peter of old, deny our Lord. Why accommodating to his neighbors, but he .is

do we deny him or forget his teachi~g? becoming unsocial.· Many. communities Are the conditions under which we hve will go for six months without coming to­such as to favor the development of this gether for a common purpos~. We even Christian spirit, this life for whi~ the get so far apart that we fad to. respond .. church stands this life which Jesus lived? when there is a call for a. commumtv meet­Are leaders l;cking? Must there be some ing.. We Seventh Day Baptists who live. one for us to follow, some one to show us in the country have. lost in a measure the the Christ, so that- habit of visiting our neighbor. We haven't

"One look on that pale, suffering face Will make us feel the deep disgrace

-Of weakness,"

, u~tilagain, like Peter, we go out and weep bitterly ? We have the advantage of two .

time to spend an evening now and then by our neighbor's fireside. . His plans and purposes are unknown to us. Wewant comradeship, but have_ forgotten how to be friends. Hoping to find this comradeship

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we have gone to the cities. Our children its meaning allowed to sink deep into the become restless and seek for pleasures in· heart of "every home-maker. Divorce af­. outward things. We want to enjoy the -ter divorce, and the union by intelligent world without becoming a part of it. We ministers of couples wQom they know have want a knowledge of things without pay~ no con~eption of the meaning of home­ing the price. This may be a natural re- making tend to cheapen the significance of suIt of conditions in the country, but it is _ the marriage relation. Yet I think most not normal. The conditions must be' men and women are sincere and feel some-changed.' thing of the meaning of home-making when

To facilitate better social conditions we they enter into this sacred relation; but need better roads, better' agricultural when the tests of unselfishness -come, the . methods, better schools, and live churches. self-denials, the se~f-sacrifice, how easy it Of these I haven't time to say much, even is to let sad changes come over us .. though they are vitally connected with my "Years following years steal something every subject. If, because of methods used in day . . farming, success is impossible, and life Until at last they steal us from ourselves away." ·could be made easier and success made . Let us make another picture; the test comes' possible by other methods, 'some one whose . but it is a means of growth; toil, care, and life is not grounded in the old ways should pain are mutual, the fruits of which are warn -of the dangers and encourage riew patience, fortitude, and courage. But that and better ways. Such a leader ought to this may be so, the home must be a re­h~ve the. broadest foundation in his prep-aration; in addition he should have a ligious home, a home where the Christian scientific knowledge of farming, road- spirit dwells. The truest expression of building, and school methods. Our theo- religion is the religion of the fireside. "It logical seminaries ought to provide for is far easier to keep the true religious such training. Better farming \vill de- spirit in the home if in some simple way' mand better roads and better schools. the fireside be made an altar, and the fa­When the farmer realizes this, these com- ther and mother God's priests." To forsake munity interests will be mutual and social the home means to forsake the church and conditions will improve. the things for which it stands.

_ Every child of the farmer should have This seems to be an age in which it is the opportunity of being educated in a hard to hold young people in the church. free high school, in which the teachers are T'here seem to be so many outside attrac­deeply religious. I believe there can be no tions, which are not so apparently wicked,

. true education unless it leads to deeper re- but which, if participated in, will draw us ligious expression. To separate intel- away from the keeping power of the Chris­lectual culture and spiritual culture is im- tian religion. We do not have time, nor possible. It is a sad blunder to think it are the conditions favorable, for reflection is the preacher's business to look after the upon the true meaning of life. We live spiritual side' of life and the teacher's busi- in a fast age and the glamour of it all ness to look after the intellectual side of makes it hard for us to see the real mean­life. A so-called spiritual person without ing through the confusion of a constantly intelligence is a stumbling block and in- . changing order. II believe there are few telligence without a corresponding spiritual who d~liberately plan to oppose Christian vision is as dead as an encyclopedia of influences. We younger folks need to facts. We need more preachers with in- know the way that leads to the joy and telligent spirituality, and more teachers peace of living in the service of the Mas­with spiritual intelligence. ter. . We need to know that any service

How much easier and how much more. which the world needs and which, when could be accomplished by teacher and rendered rightly will make the world a preacher if the homes of the country were safer and a saner place in which to live, is more ideal; if there . were more who really service for the Master. The dignity of knew the meaning of home. "The holy the labor when we are co-workers with him service with its words: love, comfort, will bring us the peace of Jesus Christ­honor, serve, keep in sickness and in the peace which comes not through some

. health," and etc., ought to be studied and mystical contemplation· or vague experi-

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ence, but· by our sharing the spirit of the Master, by ~e earnest following of duty the nobI~ faCing .of re~ponsibility, the bold confrontIng of d!fficulbes, the quiet endur­ance of persecution, the brave carrying of sorro~, and the prayerful sancti fying of our JOYS. The way of the cross is the

. price of this spirit. . Rest can only follow !abor. The ov~r.coming of Qutward things IS . by the conditIon' of the inward. The reIgn of Jesus must come through the power of love and service. This reign must be brought about by preacher teac.fier lawyer, f~rmer-in fact, every i~dividuai must be Included. Perhaps the greatest tas~, and with the task the greatest oppor­tUIpty, comes to the preacher. He is the ~01nter of ~e way. The several occupa-

. tlons and dIfferent view points of other men, . narrowed into the channel of their own ~Ir-rterests, make it impossibJe for them to se~ the whole of life. They may lead me~ In a profession like their own, but to adVIse and lead all men they are· incom­~eten.t and unsafe. The minister in these times must k.now all of life. He is asked to be pastor of all people. The call from the C<!untry ~urch is a call for young m~n With speCial preparation for service in t~lS ~eld. The business of being a Chris-

. ban IS ~~ same ~usiness everywhere, but the. conditIons which make it {; a successful bUSIness are not the same in every place. So to be a leader in the Christian life any­where the preparation must be broad, deep and thorough; and in addition the leade; should be a specialist in the kind of work the field needs. But in every field the greatest need is for men who· will point men to Jesus by.their own life, who know ~e b~p~ths leadIng to the suppression of hIS SPlrtt· and can. warn men of this. way; who c~n help bnng the home, and the school In the ~hurch, and the church to a deeperappreclatiQn of its mission; men who, like Jesus, go about doing good.

The Indignation of Our Master REVA VAN HokN

Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Churches of Iowa

. I think, without dou~t, w~ picture Jesus ~Ith a wan, sad face, hIS actIons emphasiz­Ing meekness and humility, and ouiet peacefulness as the domiriant quality of his character .

Vfrath is a part of every character', eqUipment, even of the greatest characters • Wa~ Jesus ever wra~ful? Yes,be'waS. I. w~ll!ry t? mention a. few times when .. ' ~IS . Indignabon. was aroused. Jesus waS ~ Indignant at the selfishness of Dives. Pel--haps the excuse Dives made for himSelf was that he did not cause Lazarus' poterty,. and. that, therefore, he was not. responsible for It. .

If we see some one in trouble·. and do not make an' effort to help him dUt . does not Jesus consider' us partners with the one who caused the trouble? '. ~

• 0 IA:t us as.k ourselves this questioil_: "Am I. dOIng all In my power- to make the moral hfe . of .my community ~e best possible? I. think If m~re of us would put this ques­bon to ourselv~s we would realize how we' need to try harder to raise the ·standard of our community. Stop and think 'What can I do to help? ' , .,~,

Another time when Jesus' indignation was aroused was when he entered the syna:-go~e and found' the money changers mis~~ . ~Ing the house of ~od .. Jesus' indigna-'\ '.' bon'was arous~d unttl he even used a whip lt,.;' . of cords to dnve .the money changers out. .,.

Why are we so often ashamed of our .. ' outbursts of anger? Don't you think it is· because our wr~th is altogether selfish?' .1 d? . ~ as J ~sus wrath ever selfish? .Was hiS Indlgnatu~n ever aroused except over oth~~s ? Paul says: "Be ye angry ~atid sin not. What does that' mean? Perhaps some of you knQw. I will not endeavor to answer that question.· .. .

I am attending the_ Y. W. C.' A. confe~­enceat present. The .. other evening'. I passe~ a -group of fiye or ~ix girls. .My attention was dra\vn Inparbcular to a girt who. was ben! on leading another girl to a pubhc dance In. a town somewhere near by -I do not remember its name. The rest of the gr0!lP' were thorou~hly aroused and angry. Finally a very indignant girl spoke out to the tempter, . "You go immediately and don't let me catch you coaxing Anna t~ a~1 more danc~s or anything ~f the k!nd. I wonder If such anger as those gtrls showed ever calls 'for remorse.' .

1 wonder if Jesus were to walk into Welton, Garwin, Marion, or any of our home towns, would there be anvthinp" in our social lives that would cause "the' M:as-~

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ter's indignation to rise as it did when he went among the Pharisees.

Jesus never was selfishly indignant. Never let your indignation rise except for the sake of others, is the simple thought I wish to leave with you.

Welton, la.

The Up Grade REV. WILLIAM M. SIMPSON

Christian Endeavor Topic for December 25, 1915

nan,. Read.a .. a.

Sunday-Reject unworthy things (Matt. 5: 29-30) Monday-Attention to good (Titus 3: 8) Tues,day-Meditation (I Tim. 4: 13-16) WednesdaY-Prayer (Jas. I: 1-8) TJ:ursdaY-FoIlowing Christ (Rev. 14: 4) ):i'~day-Conserving gains (Rev. 3: 10-12) Sabbath. Day-How to keep on the up grade

(Phd. 3: 12-16) . (New Year's meeting)

Paul was past middle life, but still in ·the race. Forgetting the "On the mark

" , get set, go, and the hallooing at the by-standers, and the fatigue from the race . -he ~as still running; the goal was not yet _attaIned. Has your society reached the ·goal set by the Young People's Board? -K~ep a-going. This is a three-year cam­·palgn. Keep in training. This is not ·merely a forty-yard dash. There will ·probably be something to run for after the -three-year mark has been reached. . ~he sprinter's posture is not one of equi­

-hbnum to one standing st~ll. . The force ·spent in running is what keeps him from .pitching headlong. So do o·not try to look -as if you are going when you are stand­:ing still. If you do you will fall. Spend your energies in sending your body towards the goal. It is up. grade all the way. There are two essentials to keeping on the": -.up grade-energy and direction.

What habits lead up grade? .Down -grade? .

What are some of the benefits of the dif­-fic~t1tup grade way? What are some of -the dangers of the down grade?

How can we keep in training for the up­-ward race? . .

Who wins in the race? What is the "prize of the high calling of

tGod in Christ Jesus"?

Milton Junction News Note's November is the Thanksgiving month

a!ld our church and Christian Endeavor so~ CI~ty are very thankful for the many good things that have come to them. . Union Thanksgiving services were held In our church Thanksgiving night, and al­though we were treated to a hard thunder shower, ~here were about fifty people pres­ent to enJoy a most helpful sermon by Rev Mr. Millar, pastor of the M. E. qhurch: At the close of the sermon he ask'ed the people to tell just one thing for which they were thankful'. Thirty took part a.nd it ~as indeed a fitting close for Th~nksgiv­Ing Day.

The Junior Christian Endeavor society re!llembered ~he poor on Thanksgiving eve wIth goodthln~s to eat and s?me clothing.

The Good LIterature CommIttee has sent a box of papers to the Fouke School.

The union revival meetings closed on November 2 I. Several are ready to offer themselves' for baptism and church mem­bership. The union meetings of the Ep­worth League and Christian Endeavor have been helpful to the young people.

Preparations are being made by the Sabbath school for "A White Gift for the' King" Christmas exercise. .

A mission study class is being organized. The members will use "The New Era in Asia," by George Sherwood Eddy~ .

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Milton Junction, Wis.

Do you believe in nailing up a horseshoe on your house for good luck? If you do, you're up to the standards of the heathen who lived in U r of the Chaldees when God called Abram out of that land because he had something better for him. Archeology has dug up the Chaldean clay substitute for the luck-bringing horseshoe.

Dr. Melvin Grove Kyle, one of the best known of the' archeologists, writes every month in the Sunday School Times a re­view of the latest archeological discoveries and their bearing on Bible truth. This is a sample of the many notable discoveries that are constantly being made by the ar­cheologists,-the men who dig up ancient records in Bible lands. A specimen copy of the·Sunday School Times containing one of these ~nteresting and informing articles ' . will be sent on receipt of a postcard re-

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quest addressed to The Sunday School 'Times. Company, 1031 Walnut Street, . Philadelphia, Pa.

. . -ADAMS CENTER, N. Y.-. It is not be~ause' ...

we do not enjoy the Home News depart- •..• ment of the ,RECORDER that some~ing does .', . not appear more frequently from Adams.-:

Home News Center, but we have been enjoving 'so' WESTERLY, R. I.-The gentlemen of the much, the reports of Conference" and'the· .

Pawcatuck Seventh Day Baptist Church associatioris that we did not wish to crowd' served an oyster-stew supper last evening ?ut any such matter with something of less in the vestry of the church on Main Street. Interest. . . . The church vestry was crowded at the sup- .The s~rvlces of the church 3:re main­per hour and the seats at the tables were taIne~ wIth a good degree of interest. Is~ soon filled. It was necessary to reset the (lated as we' ~re .from the. other churches. tables, as there were 175 people served. of the ~enomlnabon! we miss many of th~ A. H. Langworthy was at' his old post as good thIngs .they enJoy; but we a~e glad to', . chef, and he had an efficient staff of assist- report th~t some of these good thIngs have ants i.n the kitchen. William H. Browning been comIng o,!r way .. of .late. . Dr~ S. C. was In charge of the force of about 20 Maxson, of Uttca, was with us November waiters.· Only the highest praise was 13· He . ad~ressed . a men's meeting. on, heard of the supper. . Sabb~th evenIng, and spoke. on Sabbath' . The sale of fancy articles .and candy mO~It1g. The follow I . week' President conducted by the ladies of the church DavIs, of Alfred, .pr~ach , and also gave pr<?ved to be a great success. The booths us a lecture the even_Ill ter the Sabbath .. and tables were appropriately decorated An event that. is l' ? orward to with for the o.ccasi.on and filled with an array a great deal of In ~!; IS the annua! har­of attractive gtfts and useful articles, while vest supper an s~ egtven by th~.ladleso( the candy corner, with its pleasing variety the, chur,ch. T.hIs was held In Grange of h~me~ade candies, was very popular. Hall on the evenIng of October 12 and. was

I t IS estImated that over $225 was cleared lar~ely attended. It wa.s a .~~!:1ccess In a . from the supper and the sale of farlcy work SOCial way and also finanCIally, ~s the ladiC$- , and candy.' added upwards of $70 to theIr treasury.

In addition to the teas and thimble socials which they hold, they have' planned nve' day socials, to ,vhiCh ~e men are invited, to be. held at the homes of those living in

. MILTON, WIs.~A total sum 'of $SI was gtven by the 'students to the World Stu­dent Federation, which will go towards making up a Christmas gift for the stu~ dents of the warring nations. This gift was raised as a result of an appeal sent by Jo~n R. Mott to the local Y. M. C. A~, whIch appeal was responded to very lib­erally- and with more or less sacrifice on

- the part of the students. The Christian organizations are very

gratefu.l t<? all who gave, and . hope that . they wtll receive .as much blessing as the un!ortunate students to whom it goes.­M~lton College Review.

i MILTON JUNCTION, WIS.-J. S. Nelson

accompanied Rev. D. B. Coon to New Au­burn,. Wis., last Thursday evening, where he .wtll take. char~e of the singing in the reVIval meetIn~s Rev. Mr. Coon will con-

. duct there. Professor Paul Schmidt, who. f?rmerly had charge of the singing, has. re­SIgned for the present.-Milton J ournal'­Telephone.

the country. ..... . Seven years· ago the town of' Adams

vot~d no license by a small majority, either 2:; or 27, and has remained dry ~ince then. The hotel-keepers succeeded in having the­question submitted to the people at .our last election and all four . propositions were vo.ted down by about 4 to I. The majority _ thIS. year was 450, much more than' we had even dared m hope for. No doubt it'· will be some time before it is again brought before the people. . ...

Several of our· people were in Syracuse on November 30 to. hear Billy' Sunday.

At present we' are having nice winter .. weather, with· the snow .-frOm one to. two . feet deep. . Sleighing fine. w. P.J~ .

-- . . The man who won't keep his prorilisesto

you is just the sort of a man who wilt:; . get ~ad if you don't keep yours to him.- . The Christian· Herald. . -.

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CHILDREN'S PAGE

The "T. M. T's" ANGELINE ABBEY

Mary Martha had invited nine of her friends to come to her home for "some­thing very special." She had asked them, "Please do not dress up," and they had come with clean hands and faces, newly combed hair, and neatly attired in fresh gowns of gingham or percale.

"I didn't dress up, but I just had to , change my gown, for I had been playing in , the sand all the morning," explained Gene­

vieve Johnson, who was apt to apologize for many things which others would not mention. '

The other girls smiled sympathetically, and looked conscious, as though they had all gone through the same experience.

"Just· changing our dress when it is soiled, isn't 'dressing up,'" replied Mary Martha. "I am glad you all have' on clean dresses, for 1 have asked you here to talk of business for the King, and I think we should be neat and tidy to show respect to him. ,

"First of all, I think we ought to pray. We need our heavenly Father with us to guide us in making plans for his work. Will you all please join with me in praying the Lord's Prayer.?"

All knelt down and repeated the Lord's Prayer reverently, after which Mary Mar­tha made a short prayer:

"Dear Father, guide us in our plans to­day. Help us not to make mistakes. Grant

, that, we may be able to do something, to help, to bring thy kingdom upon earth. Forgive us our sins for Jesus' sake. Amen."

At the close of the prayer, 'she said: "Girls, I've been thinking, ever since the Conference, of what that minister said about tithing, and I've come to the con­clusion that I ought to practice it. Just as soon as I made up my mind to do it I thought of the rest of the class, and I won­dered if some of you wouldn't like to tithe too, so I asked you to come here to talk about -it, and see if we couldn't organize a club."

"Capital I"~ said N ellie Gowen~ "I'm in for it. . I think that will be just fine!"

~'Why, what do we have to tithe? We

haven~t any money or income." This from Ora Reynolds, a very practical little girl.

"Well," said Genevieve, "Grace and 'I, have an allowance for candy, gum and other little things, and I am sure we ~ught to be willing to spare part of that, to help bring in the kingdom."

Here Rose White, who had often said she wanted to, be a foreign missionary spoke up: "I do not think it is right to buy very much candy and gum, anyway, when' people in the citie~ and foreign countries are starving for real food. One thing that minister said I haven't been able to for­get. I t keeps coming over in my mind. He said the people of the United States

. spent, in one year, twelve million dollars for foreign missions, and thirteen million dollars for chewing gum, and then asked, ' 'Do the people care more for the working of their jaws than they do for saving the lost?' " , ,

"I guess the most of us do have more gum and candy than we need. W e mig~t buy less, and give that ,little to missions. It wouldn't be much, but maybe it would help some," said Nellie Go\ven.

"Of course it would help," said Mary Martha. "If ten of us pay five cents a week, that would be fifty cents from all, and would be twenty-six dollars in a year."

"Let's do it, girIs,-but II don't know as my father would give m'e the same money if he knew I was going to send it to some foreign country. He doesn't go to church, and he laughs at mother for going to the Missionary Society," said Rose.

"Oh, he laughs, .does he?" said Kittie Jones, who hadn't spoken before. "Then he'll be easy to manage. I'm not afraid of people's laughs. It's their frowns that I'm afraid of. I think if you tell your father all about it, he won't care."

"It's just this way, girls," .said Mary Martha, "I think we all spend more money than we realize. If we have a dollar, can we not spare ten cents of it for God's king­dom? If we have a dime, can we not spare one cent of it, and get along with nine cents'worth of candy?",

"Shall we start a tithing club? All who are in favor of it, and want to join, please stand up."

Marx Martha was standing. Eight of the other girls immediately rose to their feet. Only Lily Jackman, a pale, sober little girl, kept her seat. The others looked

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at her, and her f:;tce got just a little rosy as she said: '

"Girls, 1 am sorry, but I don't have any money-I just don't have any·~at all!"

"That doesn't make any differenc~. You can give a tenth of what you do have. You can do other little things to help bring in the kingdom-lots of little things. Don't you remember what our Sabbath-school teacher said about our being, stewards of the money, time, and talents which God has given us ? You could probably give a tenth of your time to doing good-we. all could-and maybe if you would pray for it, God would send you some money. We want you to join, if you believe in this, anyhow," answered Mary Martha. v

"All right, I'd love to help,!YSaid Lily, getting up.

"Now," continued Mary Martha: "what shall we call ourselves?"

"'The Tenth Legion' is the Christian En­deavor name, but T think we want some­thing different, don't we ?" ventured Mil­dred Monroe, a thoughtful little girl who had not spoken before. "How would 'Ten Tithers' do ?"

"That would be nice, and have the let­ters 'T. T.' painted or embroidered on some

, badges. My brother paints beautifully. Maybe he would put the letters on for us," said Genevieve. ' "

"That would be fine, but don't you think, girls, that we ought to have something about missionary in our name?" asked Nellie.

"Yes," "Oh, yes!" "Of cQurse !" answer- ' ed several girls at ,once.

"How would 'Ten Missionary Tithers' do, and have the letters 'T. M. T.'?" 'asked Lily Jackman.

"I think that is as good a name as we could get, and I make a motion that we

, adopt that name," said Kittie. "Second the motion !" promptly _ spoke

N I,· , e ne. ' , - "The motion' is," said Mary Martha, "that we adopt the name, 'Ten Missionary Tithers.' All in favor, please raise the right hand."

Nine girls voted. "The vote is unanimous. You know the

chair doesn't usually vote," explained Mary Martha. UN ow who will we have for president ?"

Every one shouted, "Mary Martha Bowen!"

Genevieve Johnson stood up. "Let's

...

have a regular motion', and vote. I will­put it, as it might be embarrassing to Mary Martha." , ,

A motion was promptly moved and, sec~ onded. J, The chosen' one' said: "Girls, I think some, one else would make a better " president." ~

"I don't," said Mildred. "You, are just . the one, because you thought of it.

,have plans for the club, probably. will be. a good leader."

"Y ou had better be, the first pres~d~t, anyhow, and help us get started," said Grace Gordon, who 'was Genevieve's chum ..

,The vote was unanimous for Mary Mar-: tha Bowen to become the president' oftbe "Ten Missionary Tithers." A sec!etary" and treasurer were next elected. ,"Thea the question, of dues came up. Should they pay a nickel or a penny at each, meet~ ing? One of the girls said she thoughfit would be better to take up a collection at· each meeting, paying as they could; adding, "Sometimes ,we might not have it, and then we would '. be getting in debt, if we had regular dues.".'

Every one .seemed to be thinking. of ,Lily J acl~mari ; but all studiously ' looked in other directions. .

"I think the collection should not come . out of our regular tithe, but be extra," said Mary Pratt, a very generous little girl.

USo do I." said Nellie. "Wouldn't it bea good plan to have some- banks to put our tithes in, and open them in about three months?"

Genevieve asked: ~'Why not have some homemade _ money ,boxes with the letters 'T. M. T.' on them ?',

A motion was made that the president appoint a 'committee to make the boxes, and to see about the-badges.

She at once named Genevi~ve as chair­man, and asked Grace Gordon and Kittie Jones to help her, as the other members of the committee.

"Shall we have a secret society?" asked Grace. ' ,

All agreed that it would be a good plali. to keep the ,name secret until they had. found out whether they could m.e a suc­cess of the~rplans or not; but that they ought to tell their mothers,_nd fathen, if they wanted to. _ _

Then the girls decided' to meet twice • , month, on the Wednesday which was DeU­est to the tenth and tWentieth dates., '_

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When they ,vere through with the busi­ness which completed the organization of the "Ten Missionary Tithers," Mary Mar­tha invited the girls out to play croquet, and to s'wing.

After they had played about an hour, Mrs. Bowen appeared 'with sandwiches and lemonade. Ten little girls sat in a circle ,on the grass. As they ate and drank, they discussed plans for earning, or for saving, money for the Missionary Club. They separated to go to their respective homes after agreeing to try to find out ways to earn nickels and dimes, and to report at :the next meeting.

How their parents received the news, 1lnd the experiences they had, pleasant and otherwise, is another story.

Confession of a'D EX-CODvict* Bill Stiles, One of the Last Members of the

James and Younger Brothers' Gang

It was on the evening of October 30, 1913, in the Union Rescue Mission, 145 North Main Street, Los Angeles, Cal., that [. was ,arrested by the Holy Ghost and gave my heart to God.

This was the first time I had been in a 'church service since a small boy, nearly. forty-four years before. .

My criminal life began ,vhen I was four­teen years of age back in New York as a pickpocket. I had Christian parents and a lovely home. My father was a practic­ing physician. They did all they could for me, but the devil got hold of me in 'some way, and I seemingly could not keep from doing wrong. They sent me into the country, but I did no better there. I over-heard them talking of sending me aboard the Schoolship St. Mary, and then I ran away.

I drifted westward, and in 1876 joined the James' gang with the Younger brothers, and was with them in the Northfield rob­bery. I escaped the vengeance of the law. 'and made my way to O'maha, Neb. :r had served three terms of one year each be­hind prison bars. In 1900 I was convicted. of a crime and sentenced to life imprison­'mente When those doors closed upon me it was terrible; no one can· know my feel-·jngs but those who have passed through .such an experience. 'It ,is a life o£ torture; -a living death.

*Published by the' International Free Tract "Society, 730 San Pedro St., Los Angeles, Cal.

On the 19th day of March, .1913, I got my release from prison, and' friends took me to the State ofWashillgton, where I found employment in a lumber town. I did not like it, however, and soon found a friend who gave me work for hvo months; but when he came to me one day and said that he could not employ me longer, I knew my past had been revealed, and became discouraged. At last I gave up trying to be good; I found it inlpos,sible, and de­termined to go back into myoId life of crime. I knew it meant death to me, so I began to prepare for what I knew in the end wOt1I~ be the taking of life before they would get me. I ,vas desperate, and -once more the old outlaw. spirit was upon me and I was becoming a demon at heart. I went to Tacoma and Seattle and looked up some of myoId pals-men who did not care for their lives. With them I planned to go back into myoId work of train robbing. , I came to Los Angeles on the 19th day of July, 1913, and began to look up this country, both along the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads, preparatory to "striking" and then striking again. I went into the mountains for a month, in the vi­cinity of what is now known as Pisgah Grade, and drew my maps and laid my plans. I .came back into the city and put my men (as they had bad records and were wanted by the police) in hiding. The night before the intended robbery I walked down Main Street, thinking over my plans and the course mapped out, when I found . myself in front of a mission. Just then I saw a policeman coming down the street, and naturally feeling suspicious, I stepped inside to'- avoid him and walked way up front.

I did not hear much of the service, for my mind was upon the work for the next day. I felt a little uneasy, for I had left my suitcase in my room, and in it some of the "soup" (nitroglycerine), some high ex­plosives, and my guns. I had everything ready, and so far my plans had gone smoothly; but as I say, I felt worried, and. was just getting up to leave when one of the workers came to me and asked me to give myself up to God. 'I told him that I did not believe in a God. The life I had lived did not allow me to believe in a God. I do not remember his reply, for when I attempted to get up I had no con· trol over my legs. I do not know what

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you think, bitt I kno\v my legs were fas­ten~ to that floor by a power not o£ this ea . I kept trying to get up, when a wo an came and sat down beside me and - . , urged me to go up to the altar. I listened to her pleadings for a time and then con­sented to go, thinking it would do ·me no harm anyway. What seemed so strange to ~e was that I did n~t have any power to resIst. It was not the woman for I have . ., ~een a woman-hater since my early life; 1t was the power of God. As soon as I gave my consent my legs were released. and I went up and knelt at the altar. i heard them praying, and a strange. feeling ca?1e ?ver me. It seemed as though some­thing In my heart was loosening up, and I began to feel happy; then a warm light came from. above a.nd made ~my whole body burn. How sorry I began to feel for my past life of crime! I could not keep back the tears-tears of real repent­ance. I heard thenl tell me to repeat a prayer, but I had found the Lord before that. Oh, what a joy came into my heart!

I went out of the mission knowing the / first real joy ,and happiness in the Lord.

for, I was conscious that my sins were for~ given. I could not go to bed for joy, but walked the streets for hours. I forgot ae about the train robbery I had planned for

. the next day; forg-ot the suitcase and guns. N ext morning after my conversion. I told m:y companions what I had done and they SaId I was nutty. I told them if I was, I hoped God would give me more. I then sep~rated from myoId pals and they went theIr way. I am sorry to say that two of them have paid the death penalty al-

, readY-4lne was killed in a raid in the north, . and .' the other in· Arizona. For a number of days I sat in the mission. I was ·happy-happy for the first time in mv life. Finally I began to come - to myself and to" think about the law knowing that I was liable to be arrested: for I had re­yealed my past life. I thought about go-1ng a'Yay, but was held from doing so by a feelIng of love that seemed to draw me ~loser and closer; and such a delight was 1n my heart and soul that :I knew.I was In

. the. pre.sence of God's Spirit. I was ex­penenclng the greatest joy I had ever know, and the peace of God flooded my sou~. . I kept getting happier and happier,

. untIl .It seemed as though I loved every­body and everybody loved me.. I knew no

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SABBATH SCHOOL /

" REV. L. C. RANDOLPH, D. D., MILTON, WIS. Contributing Editor

It is a remarkable sign of the times that secular, journals are giving so much space

'to moral and religious .. topics. We could wish that" many- things were omitted of course, but let us think of our mercies. In the Ladies' Home Journal, for instance, a series of articles is being published on "The

-King's Business: How It May Be Done More Effectively." The special subject in

" the current number is, "Suppose they did: Suppose one thousand men decided tomor­row to give up their lives to the churches to do active Christian \vork. What would the churches do with them ?'" The author goes on to tell the story" of how he tried to 'break into Christian work for several years without any real satisfaction. The program seemed to be to go to things, vote,

" and listen to speeches calling on men to " give themselves to God's work; but he did not find anything definite to do.

I should like to see an article written in answer to that by my friend, Marshall A. Hudson, the founder of the Baraca Class, who gave up a fine flourishing crockery business in Syracuse to devote all his time to Christian work among and with young men. He aims to be a millionaire--that is, to get a million men studying the Bible in Baraca classes, and he has approached very near his goal already. , If the writer of the article in the Journal had fallen in with some church where they had a live organized men's Bible class, he would not have stumbled along in the dark as he seems to have done. These classes are doing a great work. They reach Qne section of the great evangelistic field which lies before the modem Bible school. Let every man say in sincerity, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" and he will "find his field all about him." ."

"," If you want to know more about the Or­ganized Bible Class, write to Professor A. B. West, Superintendent of the Adult

"- Department, Milton Junction,' Wis. The Sabbath School Board has put him in charge of that department. ' Ask him ques-" tions. Or write to Marshall A. Hudson, The Windemere, Syracuse, N. Y. Or

write to any up-to-date Bible-schooI worker. Plan to go to the next convention that occurs in your section or State. Get into the procession. "There's lovely fight­ing all along the line."

Leason XIII.-December 25, 1915 THE SABBATH, SOCIA:L AND ETHICAL.-Amos 8:

4-10; Hos. 2: 11-13

"The Savior "of Kurdistan" Waist ,deep in the waters of the upper

Tigris stood a poor Kurdish washerwoman, plying her vocation. Although her pay was but a pittance, she wrought daily at her hard task for her own livelihood, the education of her bright little boy, and for" charity. In winter, when blocks of ice from the streams in the Taurus mountains came" floating down the river, she still was there, laboring with strong arms and a strong love.

The missionary" from Kharput, making. his annual visits, saw in his congregation a face that fascinated" him. In it suffer­ing and sorrow and hope and patience and passionate devotion seemed to have wrought their perfect work. ..-\t the close of the meeting he said to the native pastor, "Bring that woman to me."

In mean attire and trembling, the woman stood before him, holding with" one hand her little boy. The missionary spoke Armenian: she understood the Kurdish. He addressed her through the native pas­tor.

"Mother, do you love Jesus?" "I do," she said, "I do." , "How much would you give to him ?"" "

asked the missionary. " "0 missionary," she cried, "I have noth ..

ing. Yet all I earn I" give, saving" only " enough for food for this little boy and my­self."

"Would you give your' little boy?" he " ' asked.

"He is my all-my life !" she cried. " "Think well of it tonight and pray," said

the missionary. "I return to Kharput to­morrow."

And the widow" went out sobbing: "My" only son, my Thomas I"~ .

The remaining hours" of the missionary's visit were very busy., ones, and when the" morning came and his horse was saddled"

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he had forgotten about Tholnas. He re­. proached hi~self afterward, but it was true --he forgot. The journey \vas long. The mountain torrents were raging. The hills

' were full of -brigands. There was so much' of preparation for the journey, so much of necessary adjustment of the work of the mission, so much of admonition, direction and advice, that Thomas and his mother,

" with the wonderful light in her eyes, passed wholly from his mind. But as he was ~bout to start, the group of mission work­ers and converts who had assembled t'6 bid him farewell divided to make room for her to approach him-and there was the mother and Thomas. "

At the missionary's feet she laid the lit- ' tIe bundle of clothing on which she had worked all night. She laid one hand on her boy's head, and with the other pointing upward, said two "words: "Thomas­Christos." Then she went back to her lonely home. But not to a narrowed or mournful life; hers was the joy of one who had made the supreme sacrifice.

Thomas developed all those powers which the missionary had discerned in promise in bis face, and had seen in .full development in the face of his mother. He led his class. He advanced by leaps and bounds. He was valedictorian at his graduation. He pushed straight on in his Bible study, and when he graduated he went back to his old home, where the mother waited for him, and then far beyond into the Kurdish mountains to a to,vn which for its Chris­tian faith in early ages, h~d been named Martyropolis. There he began anew the preaching of a gospel that once made its followers faithful unto death, and" they called him "The Prophet of Kurdistan."

The black year 1895 came round, and with it the awful massacres. Man~ thou .. sand Christians gave their lives for their faith. \ Ei~ht hundred of the members of !he churches centered" close to him per­Ished. Twenty-seven teachers and preach­ers died at their posts; Thomas was shot and cruelly cut, and left for dead. With bleeding wounds and broken bones and a !ractured skull they bore him fifteen hours'

scattered, frightened Christians, and in-, . ," spired them with new courage and hope. He protected the widows; he fed the or:" phans. He gave himself without tear or thought to hundred"s' of widows, and to"" a, work that brought new life to crushed and broken hearts. The, sacrifice of his own" " mother bore its abundant fruit in the com- .

"fort he gave to orphans, and they called ' him "The Savior in -Kurdistan."-The Youth's Companion.:

Marriages STRAIT-BuRDICK.-Atthe home of Mr. and Mrs~

~lwin Strait" at, Berlin, N. Y., october 9, " 1915, by Rev. H. L. Cottrell, Mr. Fred"L. Strait, "of Petersburg," N. Y~,and Alice D. Burdick, of Berlin~ N. Y. " . '."

GREENE-ARMSBY~-At "the home- of the bride's" parents, Mr~ and Mrs. John D. Armsby, on November 15, 1915, by" 'Rev. H. L. Cottrell, " Catrron L. Greene and Blanche .Belle Arins- , by, Doth of Center Berlin, N. y~ .'

Deaths. .-:

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W;tIIPPLE.-.;.George. Arnold Whipple was "born in. Coventry, R. I., August 2'/, 1832~ and died at Ashaway, R. I.," July 26, 1915. " .

He was the fourth of seven sons born to" Christopher and Edey Tarbox Whipple. and the last to pass away. He took up his residence . in Ashaway in 1854. and lived there continuously until his d~ath. September 10. 1857., he" was . united in marriage with Abby Maria Ennis, of Richmond, R. I., who died May 28, 1911. Two" children were born to them-" Herbert G. Whip­ple, of Yonkers, N. Y., "and. Mary A. V. Hill, of Ashaway, both of whom" snrvive, together with Eoia H., the wife, and F. Hamilton and Georg­eola, the children, of their son. Inl86J,he sustained a shock of paralysis which left him a cripple, and in November, 19lI, he sustained another shock which totally deprived him of the use of his lower limbs for the remainder of his life. Notwithstan4ing his" physical troubles, "he ~ was cheerful, patient, and uncomplainin~ in dis­position, and a steady, continuous hard worker so long as he was able to :work. He was well" informed on current topics-of state and" na- " tional interest, concerning which he held sOund, " well-reasoned ooinions. He was kindly" and"ill~ dulgent in his family life; reserved but friendly and obliging in" his relations with his neigh;.. '," bors; a Quiet, unassuming citizen, of high stand- " ards of Iifeand conduct. ' • J oumey-twolong days-to where he could

bave the protection of a British consul and the care of a European surgeon. And

" T~omas, against all probabilities, recovered. Back he went into the mountains where

he had worked before. He ,gathered the

Lady (engaging nurse): "Have you had _ any experience" with children?" Appli­cant: "Yis, mum. Shu~e, Oi used to Ilea' child meselt"--Tit .. Bits.

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The First Seventh nay Baptist Church of Syracuse, N. Y., holds Sabbath afternoon services at 2.30 o'clock in the Yoke fellows' Room, third floor of the Y. M. C. A. Building. No. a30 Montgomery Street. All are cor· dially invited. Rev. R. G. navis, pastor, 112 Ashworth Place. . .

The Seventh nay' Baptist Church of New York City holds services at the Memorial Baptist Church, Wuh­ington Square, South. The Sabbath school meets a.t 10·45 a. m. Preaching service at 11.30 a. m. A cor­dial welcome is extended .to all visitors. Rev. E. D. Van Horn, pastor, 36 Glen Road, Yonkers, N. Y.

The Seventh' nay Baptist Church of Chicago holds. regular Sabbath services in room 913, Masonic Temple, N. E. cor. State and Randolph Streets, at 2 o'clock p. m. Visitors are most cordially welcome.

The Church in Los Angeles, Cal., holds regular serVe ices in their house of worship near the comer of West . 42d Street and Moneta Avenue, every Sabbath afternoon. Sabbath school at 2 o'clock. Preaching at 3. Everybody welcome. Rev. Geo. W. Hills, pastor, 264 W. 42d St.

Persons spending the Sabbath in Long Beach are in­vited . to : attend church services at the home of Mrs. Frank Muncy 837 Linden Ave. Sermon at- 10 o'clock; Sabbath schodl at II o'clock; Y. P. S. C. E. and Junior C. E. at the home of G. E. Osborn, 2077 American Ave., at 4 o'clock.

Riverside, California, Seventh nay Baptist Society . holds regular meetings each week. Church services at 10 o'clock .Sabbath morning, followed by ~ible sc:h~ol. Junior ChrIstian Endeavor at 3 P. m. SeDlor ChrIstIan Endeavor, evening before the Sabbath. 7.30. Cottage prayer meeting Thursday night. Church buildin~. cor­ner Fifth Street and Park Avenue. Rev. R. J. Sev­erance, pastor, II S3 Mulberry St.

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CHRISTMAS PRAYE~. On this Christmas Day. my Father, I come to thee with a glad

heart. Help me to observe the day fitly, with· loving remembrance of the lowly birth in Bethlehem and the $Orrows of him who came to brine redemption, and with grateful thanks to thee for thy areat . mercy .

.. ' May this be a true Christmas in my heart. Save me from all selfishness. While I gratefully receive the Christmas blessiligs, may my heart be opened toward all th~ world in sympathy and kindly interest. Make my life a song;· may I go everywhere with joy on my face and on my lips. .... ~

I pray for those to whom Chri~tmas brings gladness. that-their joy may be enriched by thoughts of the divine love; for the multi­tudes of little children to whom the day means 80 much. I pray for those to whom the day brings1ittle joy-the very poor; the lonely and solilary; those far away from their homes" whose hearts will not be warmed by human love; prisoners in their prisons, sailors on tbe sea~ and those who know nOI .thee. I pray for tbe bereft and sorrowlna to whom Christmas brings painful memories, making more real tbeir sense of loss. May they find comfort in the thought of Christ's unfailing love. Amen.-7ne Req}. J. R. Miller, D. D

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Edltorlal.-Christmas Bells· (poetry). -Will the People Forget? How About a "Sabbath Recorder" Day?­Thankful for SympathY.-Some_ thing Worth Whlle to Pray and StriVe For.-Rev. Willard D. Bur­dIck in Plainfield, N. J.-Concerning Amusements.-Honor toW hom Honor is Due. . Bon Voyage to Henry Ford.-Christianity's Great­est Peril.-Home of J. ·Franklin. Browne Destroyed by Fire .... 769-773

Our Opportunity .................... 773 From Lost Creek ...... ' ............. 773 Sabbatla RelOl'JDo-From "Bible StUd-

ies on the Sabbath Question" .... 775 A Christmas Miracle ............... 778 MI •• lon •• -From the Field.-From

Secretary Saunders.-Letter From Holland .. . .................... 780-783

Among the Churches .. ~ ............ 1181 Notice .. .... . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 784 WomaD'. Work.-Today (poetry).­

The Story of the Old Fir Tree.­Minutes of the ,Woman's Board Meeting .. . ............. ~ . . . . . . .. 78&

Amusements .. . .. : ............... ~'. 787 Now Wake, All Ye That Slumber (po- ,

etry) ... ...... . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . ... 790 YOUDg People'.Work.-Treasurer's.

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